1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
Production
That giant rotting whale prop deserves its own award.
Costume
Seventies fashion so accurate it hurts your eyeballs.
Acting
Kylie and Guy Pearce swinging for the fences literally.
Director
Stephan Elliott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Stephan Elliott called this his 'love letter and hate letter' to his own 70s Australian childhood, which explains the visceral nostalgia-poison tone.
The real 1978 beached whale in Florence, Oregon was actually dynamited by authorities—Elliott's version is somehow less chaotic than reality.
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