Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
89%RT Audience Score: 80%
Awards & Nominations: 1 win & 2 nominations
A raucous, fast-paced celebration of the Ozploitation films that came out of Australia in the 1970s and 1980s
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation is a documentary that celebrates the sex, gore, and pure insanity of Australian exploitation films. It’s like a love letter to the genre, complete with well-preserved clips and interviews with the filmmakers themselves. Even if you’re not a fan of this kind of cinema, you can’t help but be entertained by the sheer audacity of it all. It’s a wild ride that’s definitely worth checking out, mate!
Production Company(ies)
Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Moving Pictures, Company,
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for graphic nudity, sexuality, violence and gore, some language and drug use
Year of Release
2008
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 43m
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jul 31, 2009 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 6, 2009
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
documentary, Ozploitation, Australian cinema, sex, violence, exploitation, low-budget, Peter Weir, Picnic At Hanging Rock, underground, filmmakers, clips, interviews, sexploitation, nudity, violence, Quentin Tarantino, James Wan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacey Keach, Dennis Hopper, Gregory Harrison, John Jarratt, Barry Humphries, directed by Mark Hartley, written by Mark Hartley, produced by Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch, reviewed by Wesley Morris, Peter Hartlaub, John Hartl, Joe Williams, Joe Neumaier, Desson Thomson, Nikki Baughan, David Harris, Martin Unsworth, Kelly Vance, Mike Edwards, R-rated, English, Magnolia Pictures, $19.4K box office, documentary filmmaker, critic reviews, audience score, streaming, theaters, limited release, runtime 1h 43m, distributor Magnolia Pictures, genre Documentary, MPAA rating R, gross USA $19.4K, starring Gregory Harrison, Dennis Hopper, John Jarratt, Barry Humphries, Stacy Keach, Quentin Tarantino, directed by Mark Hartley, written by Mark Hartley, produced by Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch
Worldwide gross: $180,957
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $249,261
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,895
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 27,182
US/Canada gross: $21,152
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $29,136
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,784
US/Canada opening weekend: $4,694
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $6,466
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,780
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Dennis Hopper – Self
John Jarratt – Self
Barry Humphries – Self
Stacy Keach – Self
Quentin Tarantino – Self
Director(s)
Mark Hartley
Writer(s)
Mark Hartley
Producer(s)
Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
1 win & 2 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (3)
This is as insightful a glimpse into a country’s cinema as you’re likely to see at this running time.
August 20, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
TOP CRITIC
It’s all very foul, and completely entertaining.
August 14, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
Not Quite Hollywood is jammed with well-preserved clips of the Aussie movies that started pushing the limits after censorship was essentially dropped in 1971.
August 14, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
John Hartl
Seattle Times
TOP CRITIC
If Not Quite Hollywood is not quite convincing, it is quite entertaining.
August 13, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TOP CRITIC
What’s cool and always kicky is seeing a country’s irreverent movie trash being treated with such, well, reverence.
August 7, 2009 | Rating: 3/5
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
TOP CRITIC
All in all, this is a celebration of Australian exuberance, a national ethic of adventurousness and enormous charisma.
August 7, 2009
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
TOP CRITIC
It’s a triumph of documentary making, and a truly entertaining movie in its own right.
November 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
Nikki Baughan
Roll Credits
An entertaining love letter to the sex and slasher films that emerged from the land down under.
October 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
David Harris
Spectrum Culture
This is a documentary worth checking out. If you’re remotely interested in exploitation movies, or indeed, world cinema itself, it’s invaluable and thoroughly entertaining.
December 15, 2017 | Rating: 9/10
Martin Unsworth
Starburst
It’s almost criminal, the amount of fun filmmaker Mark Hartley has conducting this wildly salacious, enormously entertaining documentary.
August 29, 2011
Kelly Vance
East Bay Express
What’s nice about a movie like this is that it gives you a sampling of this genre without making you sit down and watch hours and hours of movies.
June 27, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/5
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
If you don’t already love the underground world of masochistic movies, this will be a real eye-opener.
March 13, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Mike Edwards
What Culture…
Plot
The story of “Ozploitation” movies – a time when Australian cinema showed an explosion of sex, violence, horror and action. Includes anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine love of Australian movies. It moves through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s – claiming it’s an unjustly forgotten cinematic era of boobs, pubes, tubes… and even a little kung fu.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The documentary features interviews with actors such as Dennis Hopper and Stacy Keach.
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