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Five Easy Pizzas (Aus 1994)

On this page: Bernie's Magic Moment | Gran's Big Adventure | Midday Crisis | Environmental | Prickly Heat | notes | movie release info | classification | sources

Five 6 minute shorts: five pieces of pizza, five stories with five different directors and five actors.
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Bernie's Magic Moment

Bernie (Chris Haywood) discovers he can affect the outcome of a football match by the way he irons his shirts.

Director: Mark Hanlin

Cast: Chris Haywood, Rhys Muldoon

Music: Philip Judd

Five Easy Pizzas - Bernie's Magic (ABC Content Sales - business sales)

Bernie's Magic Moment - Five Easy Pizzas (In German)

Bernie's Magic Moment (1994) (Internet Movie Database)

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Gran's Big Adventure

Gran is accidentally trapped in the sofa while moving house.

Director: Jo Bell

Cast: Bunney Brooks, Rhys Muldoon

Music: Philip Judd

Five Easy Pizzas - Gran's Big Adventure (ABC Content Sales - business sales)

Gran's Adventure - Five Easy Pizzas (In German)

Gran's Adventure (1994) (Internet Movie Database)

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Midday Crisis

Allan Newman (Geoffrey Rush) decides to become a private investigator.

Director: Garry Richards

Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Gus Mercurio, Rhys Muldoon

No music credits.

Five Easy Pizzas - Midday Crisis (ABC Content Sales - business sales)

Midday Crisis - Five Easy Pizzas (In German)

Midday Crisis (1994) (Internet Movie Database)

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EnvironMental

Seth thought that no one would notice the tiny piece of litter.

Director Clayton Jacobson

Cast: Kim Gyngell, Rhys Muldoon, Jim Kalisperis

Music: Phil Judd

Filmwinter '96 (Only lists EnvironMental, none of the other four shorts.)

Five Easy Pizzas - Environmental (ABC Content Sales - business sales)

Environmental - Five Easy Pizzas (In German)

EnvironMental (1994) (Internet Movie Database)

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Prickly Heat

Pizza delivery man Ed Ditman is stuck in his mini in a traffic jam in 40 degree heat.

Cast: Rhys Muldoon

Director: Ray Boseley

Music: Philip Judd

Five Easy Pizzas - Prickly Heat (ABC Content Sales - business sales)

Prickly Heat - Five Easy Pizzas (In German)

Prickly Heat (1994) (Internet Movie Database)

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Notes

Ray Boseley, director of Prickly Heat also wrote twelve episodes of Round The Twist, and directed seven of them. He wrote one episode of Good Guys, Bad Guys.

The Lounge Bar, the short by The Front Lawn, was shown at Filmwinter '96. It's on the same page as EnvironMental, at the end: Filmwinter '96.

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Movie release information

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Classification

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Sources of information

ABC Content Sales; Classification Board and Classification Review Board online database (Australia); Filmwinter '96; IMDb; Der KurzFilmVerleih; Screen Australia

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