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MPAA Rating - R

Length:
    97 Minutes

Genre:
    Comedy

Original Release Date:
    Apr 16, 2002

Director
    Dusan Makavejev

Cast
    Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, Kris McQuade

 
Movie Summary
The ugly American bullying his way through a foreign country was a subject for comedy in several films of the 1980s, most notably Bill Forsyths Local Hero and this film from exiled Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev. Eric Roberts plays Becker, an aggressive marketing executive for the Coca-Cola Company; he has been assigned to figure out why sales in hot and dry Australia arent higher. Becker comes up against a low-key but formidable adversary, T. George McDowell (Bill Kerr), whose homegrown soda has cornered the market in his little corner of the country. Complicating matters is Terri, a local woman (Greta Scacchi) Becker hires as his secretary; shes McDowells daughter and a single mom whos romantically attracted to the brash American. Becker wants to make a deal on his (and his employers) terms, but he finds himself falling prey to the charms of life Down Under and the ministrations of Terri. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide


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