Around the World in 80 Ways ( Around the World in Eighty Ways )

Around the World in 80 Ways (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Around the World in Eighty Ways
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Stephen MacLean

Written By:
Paul Leadon
Stephen MacLean

Actors:
Philip Quast ..... Wally Davis
Allan Penney ..... Roly Davis
Gosia Dobrowolska ..... Nurse Ophelia Cox
Diana Davidson ..... Mavis Davis
Kelly Dingwall ..... Eddy Davis
Rob Steele ..... Alex Moffatt
Judith Fisher ..... Lotta Boyle
Jane Markey ..... 'Miserable' Madge
John Howard ..... Dr. Proctor
Nell Schofield ..... Scottish Scrooge
Kaarin Fairfax ..... Checkout Chick
Frank Lloyd ..... Mr. Tinkle
Cathren Michalak ..... Mrs. Tinkle
Nicki Gardner ..... Geisha girl
Helen Simons ..... Geisha girl

Synopsis:

Mavis Davis (Diana Davidson) has had enough! Younger son Eddie (Kelly Dingwall) wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally (Philip Quast) is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly (Allan Penney) has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour (Rob Steele); long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world. One problem...no money. Solution, Eddie and Wally, with the help of their Dad's beautiful nurse, Ophelia Cox (Gosia Dobrowolska), decide to take him on that trip right in his own backyard. With the use of sounds, smells and sensations the trio soon have him convinced he's travelling around the world - in fact, too convinced. Dad is having such a great time his eyesight, health and lust for life are improving - alarmingly!

Australian Allan Penney must not only endure the encroaching exigencies of old age, but also the indignities perpetrated by his unfeeling wife Diana Davidson and his bragadoccio ex-business partner Rob Steele. Davidson bundles Penney off to a nursing home while she embarks on an around-the-world tour. Hoping to ferret out Penney's secret bank account, his avaricious sons Philip Quast and Kelly Dingwell bring the doddering, all-but-blind old man home, feign concern for his well-being, and stage a "world cruise" in Penney's backyard! Their charade extends to a shopping mall, which stands in as both an airport and Las Vegas. Though in the early stages of senility, Penney eventually figures out he's being hoodwinked, but decides to keep mum, seeing just how far his sons are willing to go for his "benefit." Entering into the spirit of things, he demands geisha girls upon "arriving" in Japan.

Around the World in 80 Ways is a 1987 Australian film about a man who tries to trick his grandfather into thinking he has travelled around the world.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 June, 2013.