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clip Judy meets BJ and Goose

Original classification rating: G. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

Judy (Nicole Kidman) gives as good as she gets when spoiled ‘Fat Kid’ (Anthony Alafaci) gloats that he can afford his BMX bike without having to resort to a supermarket summer job. Meanwhile Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo D’Angelo), riding their own BMX bikes, race towards a spectacular stack with runaway trolleys let loose by Fat Kid in revenge. Judy loses her job as a consequence and the new friends convene at a café to drink flavoured milk and come up with a plan to fix the damaged bikes and help get Judy mobile.

Curator’s notes

by Tammy Burnstock

This clip sets up the central friendship triangle between Goose, PJ and Judy as well as some archetypal baddies such as the Boss and ‘Fat Kid’ (as credited).

This clip also features 15-year-old Nicole Kidman in one of her very first screen roles. In the same year she appeared in a music video (for ‘Bop Girl’ by Pat Wilson), television series Five Mile Creek (1983–85), two telemovies and a feature film. During the 1980s, she also featured in television dramas A Country Practice (1981–93), Vietnam (1988) and Bangkok Hilton (1989). Her international breakthrough followed Dead Calm (1989) after which she starred opposite Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder (1990) and Far and Away (1992).

Angelo D’Angelo, who plays PJ (a BMX term as is Goose), also went on to appear in many Australian television shows including Home and Away (in 2003), All Saints (in 1998), and as Italian Australians Rocco in Heartbreak High (1993–98), Lorenzo Bellotti in A Country Practice and Angelo Vitale in Return to Eden (1986).

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