Romper Stomper (1992)
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Directed by: Geoffrey Wright
Starring: Russell Crowe (Hando), Daniel Pollock (Davey), Jacqueline McKenzie (Gabe), Alex Scott (Martin)
Country: Australia
Language: English (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:32:35
Plot – Spoilers:
A Melbourne neo-Nazi gang led by Hando are obsessed with the Vietnamese immigrants they believe are eating into their white spaces and lives. It’s all fun for the gang as they manage to lie low by not going beyond burglaries and late-night beatings handed to non-whites who cross their paths.
Davey is Hando’s best mate and generally goes along with whatever Hando decides. But things begin to unravel when Hando decides it’s time to take things to the next level after the gang’s favorite bar is bought over by an immigrant family. There are internal fissures too, as Davey falls in love with Hando’s girlfriend Gabe and takes on a protective role as Hando’s contempt and hatred for her intensifies.
Genres: Based on a True Story, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Incest
Random Trivia:
The character of Hando is based on jailed skinhead Dane Sweetman.
Daniel Pollock who played Davey, killed himself shortly after the movie was completed.
I saw this movie really young, my mom rented it for me, I was getting into the skinhead thing, while I wasn’t a neo nazi I was more into the 60’s reggae skinhead thing this movie really was good. Definitely has a clockwork orange/warriors vibe. This movie really does depict these characters as losers; Hando was well played by Russell Crowe, he was the only one of his mates other than the dead ones who took his nazi shit seriously. While I did think the broad was bangable and probably good in the sack since she’s a crazy bitch; I did look down on Davey a bit for killing his best friend over a bitch that got their loser friends arrested and Bubbs killed (unforgivable). It also shows how hypocritical these fuckers were, living like squatting hippies when in fact skinheads are usually a working class group. Hando was right though, Gabe was desperate and was going to bring Davey down. As much as I don’t want to defend these fucks, Davey should’ve stuck with bro Hando. Hando looks after Davey a lot and didn’t even treat him badly. Bros before hoes guys remember that pussy ain’t worth killing your brother over.
Very bad acting from the viet retards smdh
Fucking incredible film.
Long live Hitler SEIG HEIL motherfuckers. All assholes here will become soap bars when we get power again.
This movie changed my life when I saw it at the movies when I was 17. Since then I have watched this over a 1000 times. R,I,p Daniel
fuck women
Australian government has done well in regards to gangs and racism, you never see bunch of dickheads riding noisy bikes together and also all white population are now acting right. People however have opinions but they keep it to themselves or express it online under false ID.
based as hell holy shit
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An all-time best performance from Russell Crowe.
A classic!
Excellent film!! Russell Crowe was well fine when he was young???
I already have this on bluray, I highly recommend this film.
Very dark and intense with disturbing violent racism. Awesome addition EUM! I can’t believe I haven’t seen this film.