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Kevin is an apprentice motor mechanic in the western suburbs of Sydney, who, with his mate Bob, spends all his spare time drinking and cruising around the streets in his canary yellow FJ Holden, looking for girls. Derived from a series of comic poems by Terry Larsen, Thornhill’s adaptation replaced the humour with an austere and grim description of a conformist society.
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ACMI Identifier
324733
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Popular culture
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Automobiles
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Teenagers
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Teenagers
Feature films → Feature films - Australia
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Teenagers
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)