MVD Entertainment Group
announced this past week that the latest addition to its popular “Rewind
Collection” series will be the Down Under film postcard showcasing the beach
scene in Perth back in the mid-1980s, director Vincent Monton’s Windrider. The hi-def restoration will makes its
Blu-ray debut on July 24.
Over the years this film
has become something of a cult gem and a film curiosity on two levels. It is Nicole Kidman’s first “adult” Australian
feature film — she had not registered on the domestic film scene as of yet (the
irony is that Kidman was born in Hawaii) — and secondly, the location for the
film’s production was on Australia’s far western shore near Perth and
Freemantle. We see so much of Sydney
and the “outback” in films from Down Under, but Perth is a rarity … it is a
jewel, with weather and surfing conditions almost identical to that of Southern
California.
Stewart Simpson, who
simply goes by the name of “P.C.” (played by Tom Burlinson, a Canadian-born
actor, who burst onto the Aussie film scene with two back-to-back film hits, The
Man from Snowy River and Phar Lap), has a cushy job at his
father’s company, but prefers to surf — windsurf, that is — on almost a daily
basis. He is actually pretty good it at
and looks to compete internationally, but everything goes topsy-turvy when his
eye catches a young rock singer named Jade (Nicole Kidman) at a local club.
Romance blooms —
including a cozy shower for two — and both his career (what there is of it) and
his potential as a surf legend take a backseat to his infatuation with the
mop-haired beauty.
Bonus nuggets include
commentary from director Vince Monton (noted for his stunning cinematography
work in such films as Road Games, Newsfront, etc.) and writer
Everett De Roche (scripts for such Aussie films as Patrick, Road
Games and Razorback), the extended “bedroom scene,” a music promo
featuring Nicole Kidman and the Boyd Wilson music video titled, “Young Days.”
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