BMX Bandits is a 1983 Australian children's adventure film featuring one of Nicole Kidman's earliest appearances. After a successful Sydney bank robbery, the man in charge plans a further and larger robbery, hoping that he can trust his less-than-competent gang. Two young BMX experts, P.J. and Goose , and their friend Judy , all apparently on school holidays, discover and steal a box of police-band walkie talkies that the bank robbers were hoping to use to monitor on police traffic. With the police unable to track the stolen radios, and the kids unaware that the robbers are now tracking... them, the kids are caught by the thieves, but escape. They are finally arrested but escape police custody to launch their own plan. The film boils down to a cartoonish chase across opportunistic sites around Sydney, including a memorable escape down the Manly Waterworks water slides, complete with BMX bikes. The film was also known as Short Wave for American bootleg distribution. In 1983, film was nominated for four awards by the Australian Film Institute. BMX Bandits grossed $124,649 at the box office in Australia.
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| Release date: | 1983 |
| Directed by: | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Cinematography: | John Seale |
| Screenplay by: | Patrick Edgeworth, Russell Hagg |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action, Comedy |