Yahoo Serious Yahoo Serious i(A147491 works by) (birth name: Greg Pead)
Born: Established: 1953 Cardiff, Cardiff - Elermore Vale area, Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon Mr Accident Yahoo Serious , David Roach , ( dir. Yahoo Serious ) United States of America (USA) : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , 2000 Z1865914 2000 single work film/TV fantasy humour

The world's most accident-prone man, Roger Crumpkin, works as a handyman for the world's largest free-range egg company, run out of the Sydney Egg House (formerly the Sydney Opera House). When he uncovers a plot by his employer to lace the eggs with nicotine, he and his employer's girlfriend Sunday Valentine (a former chicken sexer and UFO enthusiast) must stop him.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Reckless Kelly Yahoo Serious , Warwick Ross , David Roach , Lulu Pinkus , ( dir. Yahoo Serious ) United States of America (USA) Australia : Warner Brothers Serious Entertainment , 1993 Z1865897 1993 single work film/TV fantasy adventure

A modern-day Ned Kelly struggles to save his family island. Since it's against his beliefs to rob banks for his own profit, he must find another way to come up with the money.

Though the primary influence on Serious's modern-day outlaw and folk hero is Ned Kelly (as in, for example, Reckless Kelly's name and armour), the character also has shades of Robin Hood (in, for example, his refusal to rob banks for his own profit and in Hugo Weaving's villain, 'Sir John').

Like Serious's previous film, Young Einstein, this film is alternate history (in the sense of the fantasy sub-genre): in this instance, Serious works from an Australian folk-hero, but his concern is as much with the myth (and the construction of myth) as it is with the reality.

1 3 form y separately published work icon Young Einstein Yahoo Serious , David Roach , ( dir. Yahoo Serious ) United States of America (USA) Australia : Warner Brothers , 1988 Z1865887 1988 single work film/TV fantasy

Albert Einstein, the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, accidentally splits the atom (with a chisel) while trying to find a way to put bubbles back into beer. Travelling to Sydney to patent his new theory of relativity, Einstein romances Marie Curie and incidentally invents both rock and roll and surfing.

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