Synopsis
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
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Cast
- Guy PearceKeith Hall
- Kylie MinogueKaye Hall
- Radha MitchellJo Jones
- Julian McMahonRick Jones
- Asher KeddieGale Marsh
- Jack ThompsonMayor
- Jacob ElordiRooster
- Jeremy SimsBob Marsh
- Atticus RobbJeff Marsh
- Darcey WilsonMelly
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
Is this outrageous comedy sexy or revolting? Elliott proves – though this feels like the least of his achievements – that a film can be both. - 80
Variety
A cheerfully vulgar, consistently amusing and sometimes hilarious parody of life in a suburban Aussie cul-de-sac in the mid-1970s. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Crass, colorful and hanging together by the barest of threads. - 63
Movie Nation
The great pleasure in the picture is the way Pearce, Minogue, McMahon and the other adults hurl themselves into the vulgarity of it all. - 60
Screen Daily
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. - 60
Film Threat
What Swinging Safari lacks in the story is made up in originality and a satisfying art direction.
