Idiot Box (film)
Idiot Box is a 1996 Australian film starring Ben Mendelsohn.
Plot
The story follows two fictional characters Mick and Kev who have nothing to offer. They are stereotypical bogans with a taste for cheap thrills. Kev's hobby is being angry, his motto is "Maximum fear, minimum time". He is unemployed with "attitude," an antagonistic manner. Mick is his best friend ("mate") and together they kill time drinking beer, watching the Idiot Box and looking for action on the street.
One day Kev tells Mick they have drawn their last dole cheque. Instead of giving into their limited circumstances, they are going to get rich quick doing the only thing they are qualified for - crime. Conning a friend into driving the getaway car, the gang of three plan a bank robbery. But it is a heist that is doomed from the start when professional criminals target the same bank.
Production
The film's writer-director David Caesar said:
Box office
Idiot Box grossed $837,689 at the box office in Australia.
Home media
Podcasts:
Idiot
ALBUMS
- Känsla och Stil released: 2004
- Storvärk och huvudverk released:
Idiot
ALBUMS
- CG Official Soundtrack III: The Halloween LP released: 2010
- CG Official Soundtrack, Volume II released: 2010
- CG Official Soundtrack, Volume I released: 2010
CG Official Soundtrack III: The Halloween LP
Released 2010- Warning!/Drive-In intro
- Halloweeen (feat. Oak Lonetree)
- The House That Dripped Blood promo
- Tombstones
- Beast Within
- Toys 'R Us promo
- Fibers Of A Deadly Night
- Unabridged Agony
- All About The Devil
- Garment District promo
- Forces Of Evil
- Monster Squad
- Phantom Rotary TV edit
- Silver Shamrock promo
- Eyes Of Kerazl
- Boarding House
- Not That Scary
- Vault Of Horror promo
- Major Crash
- Goosebumps Dub
- Bela Lugosi's Dead
- Scream After
- Blood-O-Rama promo
- Eat Your Treats
- Full Moon
- Drive-In interlude
- Return Of The Living Dead
- Alucarda
- Woolworth & Wilco promo
- Death Shout
- Beware
- Dawn In The City
- Desolate Transmission
- Drive-In outro
CG Official Soundtrack, Volume II
Released 2010- Ravi Shankar PSA
- Creature With the Atom Brain
- Violence Is Golden
- The Zombie's Bunny Lake Is Missing promo
- Serial Killer Fanpage Theme Song
- The Bitch Is Back (Barbie's Head)
- Beyond the Valley Of the Dolls promo
- Drink the Blood Cousin
- Spider Baby test promo
- Spider Baby
- The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave promo
- The Girl & the Zombie
- So Very Close
- Some Strange Things Are Going Around the Rainbow Lately
- Sandtimer
- Last House on the Left promo
- ViKtTor interlude
- Blues Spirit Blues
- Child of the Dead promo
- Zombie Flesh Eaters
- Wild Style interlude
- Eyeless
- La Residencia
- Broken Limbs & Smashed Off Faces
- Corpse Grinders promo
- Fear
- N.I.O.M.H. PSA
- The Groupie Song (Suspira Chant)
- My Ratio
- 42nd St. Pete outro
CG Official Soundtrack, Volume I
Released 2010- ViK Intro
- 42nd ST. Pete
- Mansion Of The Doomed (interlude)
- Terror Vision (redux)
- The Chocolate Pudding Was Drugged
- Get Your Mouth Wired Shut
- House By The Lake (interlude)
- Frightwig
- No One Can Help You Now
- Sweatin'
- Run For Your Life
- Caged Heat (interlude)
- Son Of The Room
- Dream Therapy
- Bank Robbery
- Zombi Flash Heaters
- Escape From Coral Grove
- The Child & Axe (interlude)
- Stacks Of Whores
- All Women Are Bad
- I Piss Shit
- Phantasm
- She Best & The Embalmer (interlude)
- Cyborg Dawn
- Proud Of White Blood Cells
- Annie Disses VikTTor
- Tenticles (interlude)
- Screamo Blues (Sammo Hung mix)
- 42nd St. Outro
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by Aquabats
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by The Damned
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by Incubus
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by Damned
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by The Aquabats
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by Straighten Things Out
IDIOT BOX .
by: AquabatsNow now now
I'm just a boy
I watch too much TV
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Casper the Ghost is so friendly
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Sitting in my living room
With nothing else to do
I think I'm going blind
Just like Mr. Magoo
I know every single ending
Of every Scooby Doo
[Chorus]
Turn off the idiot box
It's a disease just like the Chicken Pox
Turn off the idiot box
Find yourself a partner
Turn on the television
And let it control your mind
Friends, Romans, countrymen,
I've got something to say
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Get up off the couch
Get up go out and play
Nobody knows, Nobody knows
[Chorus]
Children I want to warn 'ya
''cause I've been to California
Where Mickey Mouse is a demon
Turn it off If you are able
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Take a pair of scissors
And cut off that cable
Nobody knows, Nobody knows
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