Americans Try To Guess The Plot Of 11 Australian Films

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We read out the titles of Australian films to some of our American coworkers to see if they could guess what they were about. Here's what happened.

The Americans:
Ben, Ari, Hannah, Chris, Patrick, Ella, and Kirk.

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Ben: It's about an angry man who makes salads for a living.

Chris: This is 110% about the member of a Hells Angels as he tries to expand the club’s influence across the country. Subtitle: "One man. One gang. One bike."

Justin: The ghost of a serial killer possesses a kitchen knife and torments everybody.

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Watch now on Presto. Chopper MA15+ © Australian Film Finance Corporation, Mushroom Pictures PTY Limited, Pariah Films PTY Limited. All Rights Reserved.

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Ella: It’s kind of like the Australian version of Frozen. A prophecy puts the land in an eternal drought, so a brave hero goes on a daring journey to find Priscilla, the desert queen — to bring her home, end the spell, and make it rain.

Ben: Priscilla inherits the desert from her husband — “Shawn, the King” — following his disappearance. She solves mysteries and eventually learns a little bit about herself.

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Ella: A man is short on cash so he sets up a pet crematorium in his backyard.

Hannah: It’s a twisted horror film about possessed BBQs that burn down people’s sheds. 'Cause that would only happen in Australia.

Justin: A bunch of siblings come home to their parents’ house for the holidays, right as a volcano erupts and seeps into their backyard. It's like Dante's Peak.

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Ari: That’s just the Australian word for nice, right?

Patrick: A group of teenagers are in a band, and they're unpopular and not the best band, so they decide to be the loudest. They get a hundred speakers and play at the school talent contest, and they break the record for loudest band, and they win.

Ari: It’s a rock and roll documentary but told exclusively from the parents’ point of view. “Garbage music,” they call it.

Justin: It’s a silent film.

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Ben: Two boys find a magic bra that grants them each three wishes. Unfortunately, every wish they make comes with a horrible and debilitating downside. The movie is their search to find the topless genie, return the bra, and restore themselves to their original form.

Kirk: It’s about a bunch of chubby boys who have to wear man-bras. And they make it cool, and they win some kind of competition at the end. Like a talent show.

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Kirk: It’s about an old dog, and it dies at the end. Spoiler alert.

Hannah: It’s supposed to be a documentary following a dying breed of gentlemen, but really they uncover that the old guys they're following are disgusting.

Justin: A group of octogenarian women decide to get pregnant and have kids again, to save humankind.

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Patrick: A dude dies in a gutter in Brunswick. It’s like a five-minute art film.

Ari: The Angel of Death has a two-week paid vacation that he has to use by the end of the year. He gets on the wrong train and ends up in Brunswick, and has to kill time.

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Ari: It's about a guy who tracks trains, which is actually really easy to do. He's a train whisperer and can figure out which way a train is headed just by looking at it.

Ella: A reformed drug addict studies beauty therapy and patents a special arm concealer that can cover track marks. She then becomes very rich, which is detrimental to her sobriety.

Patrick: Follows the story of a man on the beach. He is looking at his sand footprints, and trying to figure out whether Jesus has abandoned him or not.

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Justin: It’s the true story of a group of criminals who heisted Ayers Rock.

Ari: Well, it might be a bargain movie. It’s about someone who was going to pay $20 for something, but got it for $8.

Patrick: It’s a movie about a bunch of coupon-clipping grandmas who realise that the greatest discount they can get... is stealing from a bank.

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Watch now on Presto. The Big Steal © 1990 Cascade Films Pty Ltd and The Australian Film Finance Corporation Pty Ltd

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Ella: A boy is born with a weird deformity whereby he has sharp razors on his back, kind of like a human stegosaurus. It’s very dangerous.

Chris: A feral pig gets lost in the big city. Hilarious hijinks ensue.

Ella: Yes! It's a spin-off of Babe. Babe was abandoned by his owners, went feral, and destroyed the town and all his relationships.

Ari: It’s a documentary about an Australian barbershop that shaves only men's backs.

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Ari: It's a menstruation comedy.

Ella: Yes! A group of women are all living together in a farmhouse on an outback property, and their menstrual cycles sync up, with dangerous-but-hilarious results.

Justin: It’s about an Englishman who is really tired of people asking him how big his farm is.

Ari: It's about rural Australian vampires. They're blood farmers.

Justin: "Tom Blood was just a regular vampire farmer, until one day…"

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Watch now on Presto. 100 Bloody Acres MA15+ © 2012 Cyan Films Pty Ltd, Filmfest Limited, Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the South Australian Film Corporation

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