Dr. Plonk ( Doctor Plonk )

Dr. Plonk (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Doctor Plonk
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
81 min + 59 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Rolf de Heer

Written By:
Rolf de Heer

Actors:
Nigel Lunghi ..... Dr. Plonk
Paul Blackwell ..... Paulus
Magda Szubanski ..... Mrs. Plonk
Wayne Anthoney ..... Prime Minister Stalk
Quentin Kenihan ..... Man on Trolley
Mike Rann ..... Prime Minister Short
Phoebe Paterson de Heer ..... Maid
Joshua Jaeger ..... Botanic Gardens Policeman
Bogdan Koca ..... City policeman
Jeff Lang ..... Dr. Plonk
Nigel Martin

Synopsis:

An eccentric but brilliant early 19th Century scientist attempts to convince the Prime Minister that the world will end in 2008 in director Rolf de Heer's silent, monochromatic tribute to the slapstick classics of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach. Dr. Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) may be living in the year 1907, but he has recently discovered that mankind's time on planet Earth is about to expire. As Dr. Plonk's mute assistant Paulus (Paul Blackwell) lumbers around the lab doing his best to keep the various experiments moving along, Mrs. Plonk (Magda Szubanski) drives her overworked maid (Phoebe Paterson de Heer) to the point of exhaustion and the family pooch does his best to simply stay out from under everyone's feet. Upon discovering that the world will end in exactly 101 years, Dr. Plonk makes an unsuccessful attempt to convince unbelieving Prime Minister Stalk (Wayne Anthoney) that something must be done before it's too late. In a desperate bit to back up his findings, Dr. Plonk constructs a time machine that will allow him to travel into the future and bring back irrefutable evidence of mankind's ultimate demise. Though their misadventures through time at first find Dr. Plonk and Paulus appearing in the free-love era and nearly turning up as dinner for a tribe of hungry cannibals, the pair eventually gets it right and makes it to Adelaide of 2007. Though the public at large seems hopelessly clueless about the impending destruction that's plain to see for anyone willing to open their eyes, Dr. Plonk beliefs himself fortunate when he scores an exclusive one-on-one with 21st Century Prime Minister Short (South Australian Premier Mike Rann). Unfortunately for Dr. Plonk, and perhaps all of mankind, clueless officials immediately deem the genius time traveler a terrorist suspect and attempt to capture him for questioning before he makes the leap back to 1907.

The eponymous scientist/inventor Dr. Plonk calculates that the world will end in 101 years unless immediate action is taken to stop the fatal chain of events being initiated. Assisted by his formidable wife, his faithful manservant Paulus and his trusty but demented Jack Russell terrier, Plonk realizes that he needs to furnish evidence of his grave claims. He sets out to invent a time machine in order to visit the outlandishly strange and deadly year of 2007.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 May, 2008.

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