Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and directed by Nadia Tass (who made her debut as a feature director on this film). The film stars Colin Friels as the titular tram enthusiast who becomes involved with a pair of would-be bank robbers. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.
At the start of the film Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Author...
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Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and directed by Nadia Tass (who made her debut as a feature director on this film). The film stars Colin Friels as the titular tram enthusiast who becomes involved with a pair of would-be bank robbers. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.
At the start of the film Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority then operator of Melbourne's trams. Socially awkward and shy, Malcolm is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mechanical genius whose modest inner-city cottage is fitted with a variety of remarkable gadgets. When his boss (Charles Tingwell) discovers that Malcolm has built himself a cut-down tram during work time and using work materials, and has taken it out on the tracks, Malcolm is sacked. With his mother dead and no other income, the local shop-owner advises him to takes in a boarder, Frank (John Hargreaves). Frank's brassy girlfriend...
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