He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

2001

Action / Comedy / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 4338 4.3K

queensland australia based on novel or book boarder brisbane queensland, australia

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Plot summary

A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.

Director

Richard Lowenstein Photo
Richard Lowenstein

Top cast

Clayton Jacobson Photo
Clayton Jacobson as Repo Man
Steve Bastoni Photo
Steve Bastoni as Sydney Policeman 2
Sophie Lee Photo
Sophie Lee as Nina
Noah Taylor Photo
Noah Taylor as Danny
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945.38 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
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25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 5
1.9 GB
1904*1072
English 5.1
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Daniel 5 / 10

The movie tries to be funny but mostly

The movie tries to be funny but mostly fails because everything ends up being so absurdly over the top it really stretches the limits of credibility. The too-bad factor is that anyone who's actually lived the kind of share housing scene Birmingham describes in the book which the film adapts, knows that the reality was much weirder and crazier than Lowenstein ends up depicting. Lowenstein's efforts to recreate on film the share housing zaniness end up coming across as confected and contrived in comparison to Birmingham's anecdotes in the book which have much more the air of authenticity about them. Maybe it's the acting, the direction, the screenplay; but on film it just seems like caricature. I mean we all had run-ins with corrupt detectives, but they didn't just shoot your housemates dead and walk off like Schwarzenegger wannabes acting like nothing happened, right? It's all just too, well, "scripted" and exaggerated. On the other hand, the way Birmingham tells this story in the book (where it was set in Brisbane around the time of the Fitzgerald Inquiry), I could actually relate to, as anyone who lived the alternative scene in Brisbane in the late 80s could. Add to that the fact that, like Dogs in Space most of the film is just a bunch of loosely woven episodes held together by Taylor's central role, you end up with the distinct feeling that like most of Dogs in Space (its climax notwithstanding) this movie just doesn't seem to go anywhere. Which might have been the philosophical point in regards to shared housing, but it would've been nice to have had some kind of developing narrative in there, somewhere.
Reviewed by Les N 5 / 10

I never saw this when it came out...not

I never saw this when it came out...not sure why. There must be a deeper meaning to it, but it escapes me. For someone else. The soundtrack is good!
Reviewed by harsh c 1 / 10

Cringeworthy

Cringeworthy .
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