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Preppers
Synopsis
This comedy follows young Aboriginal woman Charlie, who experiences her own personal cataclysmic event when her life crumbles around her.
Escaping the fallout, Charlie finds herself at the centre of a hilariously mismatched community of doomsday preppers planning for the apocalypse at Eden 2. Founded by a wizened old First Nations man called Monty, Eden 2 is a refuge for Aboriginal people, and a few others that Monty has conned into footing the bill.
Charlie reluctantly joins the preppers and is eventually won over by the rag-tag bunch of misfits as she tries to come to terms with the dissatisfaction, loneliness and alienation she’s always felt trying to find her place in a White Australia. By gaining a sense of purpose, becoming an unlikely leader and confronting the generational trauma of colonisation, Charlie ultimately realises that she isn’t as powerless or vulnerable as she thinks. That maybe the end of the world might be her best chance at a new beginning?
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Details
- Cast
- Nakkiah Lui - Charlie
Jack Charles - Monty
Meyne Wyatt - Guy (macho Aboriginal survivalist)
Ursula Lavish - Kelly (born again couple)
Chum Ehelepola - Lionel (born again couple)
Aaron McGrath - Jayden (Gen Z decoloniser)
Eryn Jean Norvill - Kirby (conspiracy theorist podcaster)
Luke Arnold - leader of a group of white yuppie preppers
Luke Carroll - Aboriginal archaeologist
Christine Anu - Charlie’s mother
Miranda Tapsell - Charlie’s Nan
Grant Denyer - Charlie’s fiancé and producer boss
Brooke Satchwell - Charlie’s breakfast TV co-host - Release dates
- 10 November 2021 – ABC
- Rating
- PG - Parental guidance
- Notes
Written by Nakkiah Lui and Gabriel Dowrick.
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Other films by Steven McGregor
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- 2002Cold Turkey
- 2006My Brother Vinnie
- 2009In a League Of Their Own
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- 2010Intervention – 2 Years On
- 2011Running to America
- 2012Croker Island Exodus
- 2013Big Name No Blanket
- 2016Servant or Slave
- 2017The Warriors
- 2018Black Comedy (Season 3)
- 2019Blue Water Empire
- 2019Black Comedy (Season 4)
- 2020Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
- 2021Copping it Black
- 2022True Colours
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