Mr. Accident

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Mr. Accident
Mr. Accident poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Yahoo Serious
Written byYahoo Serious
David Roach
Produced byYahoo Serious
Warwick Ross
Lulu Serious
Dennis Kiely
StarringYahoo Serious
Helen Dallimore
David Field
Gary McDonald
CinematographySteve Arnold
Edited bySimon Martin
Music by Nerida Tyson-Chew
Production
companies
United Artists
Carlotta Films
Distributed by Roadshow Film Distributors [1]
Release date
  • 24 March 2000 (2000-03-24)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget<$10 million [2]
Box office$1.6 million [3]

Mr. Accident is a 2000 Australian comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Yahoo Serious. It was filmed in September and October 1998 in Sydney.

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Plot

Roger Crumpkin is a young, accident-prone man who works as a maintenance man with his boss, Duxton, at an egg factory named the Big Egg Factory, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Sydney Opera House. One day, Roger and his friend, Lyndon, go to a club, where a bartender offers him a cigar, and Roger smokes the cigar, triggering a smoke addiction. In the summer, as Crumpkin and Lyndon crash into a junkyard, he discovers a metal object which resembles a hubcap from a Volkswagen Beetle. A space-obsessed woman named Sunday Valentine comes to Crumpkin's house, where Crumpkin forges a crush on the woman.

As Crumpkin inspects the hubcap the next day, he realizes that the hubcap is special, only for him to inadvertently trip over all the trash collected in the apartment house, triggering an trash avalanche. After the avalanche, he presents the hubcap to Sunday, and convinces her that it belongs to a UFO. Crumpkin and Sunday visit the junkyard, and find a big, metal object under the dirt. They pull it out, only to be just an ordinary car, and Sunday believes that the rumor was likely fake. That night, Crumpkin takes Sunday to dinner, but an accident scene at the dinner triggered by Crumpkin results in them leaving the dinner. As Sunday leaves Crumpkin, the latter meets Duxton.

The next day, Crumpkin is unable to revert the smoking addiction, and loses Bary, his goldfish. After Crumpkin makes cappuccino for Duxton using the amount of ingredients though a phone call about the international markets of the egg factory, Duxton reveals that Sunday is actually with him, and that he killed his brother by trapping him in a fridge and crushing him, and he traps Crumpkin and Lyndon into the new fridge like what he did to his brother, and drives it to the recycling plant to crush them, but the two escape from being crushed. Duxton takes Sunday, and drives her on a truck, while Crumpkin gives chase, and reconcile with Sunday, and tells her about Duxton's plot.

Crumpkin and Sunday flee to the apartment, while Duxton confronts them, and attempts them to trap the both into the room's fridge. However, Roger fights Duxton, and Duxton cuts the wires off of the fridge to kill Sunday, but Audrey, a Jack Russell Terrier dog, saves Sunday from falling, and Crumpkin pulls Sunday back up, and Crumpkin defeats Duxton by making the latter fall down the apartment house. Crumpkin reconciles with Lyndon, while he returns Sunday a repaired music box, and they come together, while the hubcap flies up, and reattaches to a UFO in space, and the UFO flies away.

Cast

Soundtrack

Reception

Mr. Accident grossed $1,612,424 at the box office in Australia. [3]

The film holds a 17% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews (5 negative, 1 positive). [4]

See also

References

  1. "Mr. Accident (2000)". British Film Institute . Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. Karon, Paul (12 May 1998). "Goldwyn gets Serious for Aussie 'Accident'". Variety. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  4. "Mr. Accident". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 28 May 2014.