Beneath its CLOCKWORK ORANGE trappings, ROMPER STOMPER is a fairly routine melodrama about young people at the crossroads that has as much in common with REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE as it does with Stanley Kubrick's ultra-violent political allegory.
The gang at the heart of ROMPER STOMPER is led by Hando (Russell Crowe), a devotee of Mein Kampf who, with his fellow skinheads, has taken on the mission of reclaiming Australia from the influx of (mostly Asian) immigrants who, Hando feels, threaten to usurp the country's whites and reduce them
to latter-day Aborigines. His best pal is Davey (Daniel Pollock), until Gabe (Jacqueline McKenzie) comes between them. An...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NC-17
Length:
107 mins