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  • 2019
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  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary 1970s Australia: A 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach and it's the biggest thing that's ever happened in the lives of the local kids. Behind closed doors, the parents of this quiet suburban cul-de-sac celebrate in their own special way... It’s a time of boxed wine, bad hair, bad styles, bad choices, but good times. And like th...

Directed By: Stephan Elliott

Written By: Stephan Elliott

  • 2019
  • R
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Blue Fox Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Swinging Safari

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary 1970s Australia: A 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach and it's the biggest thing that's ever happened in the lives of the local kids. Behind closed doors, the parents of this quiet suburban cul-de-sac celebrate in their own special way... It’s a time of boxed wine, bad hair, bad styles, bad choices, but good times. And like th...

Directed By: Stephan Elliott

Written By: Stephan Elliott

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
69
67% Positive
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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80
Jun 20, 2019
A cheerfully vulgar, consistently amusing and sometimes hilarious parody of life in a suburban Aussie cul-de-sac in the mid-1970s.
By Richard Kuipers FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 20, 2019
Is this outrageous comedy sexy or revolting? Elliott proves – though this feels like the least of his achievements – that a film can be both.
By Luke Buckmaster FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 20, 2019
Crass, colorful and hanging together by the barest of threads.
By Harry Windsor FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 20, 2019
The great pleasure in the picture is the way Pearce, Minogue, McMahon and the other adults hurl themselves into the vulgarity of it all.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 22, 2019
What Swinging Safari lacks in the story is made up in originality and a satisfying art direction.
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60
Jun 20, 2019
An energetic, irreverent, autobiographically inspired affair filled with key swapping, children running amok and a rotting 200-tonne whale, the film proves a mixed bag but, given the era on display, its messiness always feels appropriate.
By Sarah Ward FULL REVIEW

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Production Company See Pictures, Wildheart Films
Release Date Jun 21, 2019
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Tagline Staying alive was harder than you think.
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Awards

Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
Transatlantyk Festival: Lodz
• 1 Nomination

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