Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)

Directed by

Stephan Elliott

Genre

comedy film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American traveler in Australia gets kidnapped and forced to stay in a remote outback town run by a strange cult. The movie exaggerates and parodies Australian stereotypes in a wild screwball comedy style.

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What happens

Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian screwball comedy film directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy. "Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to an inexact and extremely rustic and uncivilised location, usually in rural or remote Australia. Equivalent terms include "the boondocks" and "out in the sticks" in American English or "the back of beyond" in British English. The film centres on an American traveller in Australia who is abducted and held captive in a dystopian cult. Similarly to the way the Coen Brothers' film Fargo, and its spin-off TV series mocks stereotypes about the culture of Minnesota, Welcome to Woop Woop's characters are wildly exaggerated and parodied stereotypes of Anglo-Australian Bogans from Outback desert communities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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