Les Patterson Saves the World
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Director George T. Miller Initial DVD release August 30, 1990 Language English | 4.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Duration Country Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1987 (1987) Cast Barry Humphries (Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage), (Veronique Crudite), (Colonel Richard Godowni), (Neville Thonge), (President Rivers), (Charles Herpes)Similar movies Interstellar , Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , Iron Man , You Don't Mess With the Zohan , Independence Day , Battleship Tagline Les Patterson Saves the World. A True Story | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Les patterson saves the world trailer 1990
A crude Australian diplomat (Barry Humphries) stops a mad colonels (Thaao Penghlis) plot to export bad toilet seats to the West.
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Les Patterson Saves the World is a 1987 Australian comedy film starring Barry Humphries as his stage creations Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna Everage.
Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle East so he can be tortured to death by the country he insulted. Patterson's arrival is the prefect distract of a coup and he is spared. At a bar Patterson meets a bio weapons scientist who's developed a horrific disease for the KGB whom plan to distribute it to the Pentagon via toilet seats. Patterson of course is far too drunk to understand anything happening and teams up with Dane Edna to save the world.
Plot
The uncouth Sir Les Patterson, played by Barry Humphries, teams up with Dame Edna Everage (again played by Barry Humphries) to save the world from a virulent bioterror attack ordered by Colonel Richard Godowni of the Gulf State of Abu Niveah.
Cast
Production
The film was co-written by Humphries with his third wife Diane Millstead, and directed by George Miller of The Man from Snowy River fame.
The movie was originally meant to be made by Thorn EMI in Britain but was eventually established in Australia with entirely Australian money.
Box Office
Les Patterson Saves the World grossed $626,000 at the box office in Australia. "It was a disaster of major proportions," said Jonathan Chissick of Hoyts, who distributed the film in Australia. David Stratton wrote in 1990, "The gala opening was an embarrassing occasion, and it is still rumoured in the industry today that the Federal Treasurer Paul Keating, who attended, was so angry that he decide to end rorts in the film industry."
The movie was released to British cinemas in 1988 but was not successful there either.
Critical Reception
Michael Adams included Les Patterson Saves The World on his list of "worst ever" Australian films.
References
Les Patterson Saves the World WikipediaLes Patterson Saves the World IMDb Les Patterson Saves the World themoviedb.org