Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian comedy film, directed by Stephan Elliott starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy. "Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to a fictional location in the middle of nowhere.
Johnathon Schaech stars as Teddy, a New York bird smuggler who goes to Australia to replace a flock of escaped birds after a deal goes awry. While there h...
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Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian comedy film, directed by Stephan Elliott starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy. "Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to a fictional location in the middle of nowhere.
Johnathon Schaech stars as Teddy, a New York bird smuggler who goes to Australia to replace a flock of escaped birds after a deal goes awry. While there he has a wild liaison with a quirky, sexually ravenous girl (Angie, played by Susie Porter) who after a brief courtship knocks him unconscious and kidnaps him. When he awakes he finds himself "married" to her (not legally) and stranded in Woop Woop, a desolate, dilapidated town hidden within a crater-like rock formation in Aboriginal territory. The residents are people who lived there at an asbestos mining camp before the land was handed over to the Aborigines; following a tragedy in 1979, Woop Woop was abandoned and literally "erased" from the...
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