Murbah Swamp Beer

2002 "A documentary that could only be true in Australia"
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Official Website: http://tropfest.com/ny/2012/03/21/murbah-swamp-beer/
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Just before Easter 2001, a semi-trailer loaded with 40,000 bottles of beer crashed into the Tweed River on the out skirts of the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah (known as "Murbah" to the locals). With salvage crews ordered to clear the crash zone for the busy Easter traffic, the locals undertook their own salvage operation, making it their best Easter ever. Murbah Swamp Beer is a documentary about an event that could only happen in Australia. It captures the spirit of a small, country town as its citizens discover that beer definitely tastes better when it's free.

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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
uds3 Forget your Heineken, Bud and Carlsberg....this here is the REAL mccoy! Director Doust has a total winner here with his short documentary (more a docudrama actually) concerning an event which befell Australia (couldn't be anywhere else!) in April 2001.Just ahead of Easter that year - the greatest of tragedies! A truck loaded with 40,000 bottles of the frosty brew left the road and jack-knifed into the Tweed river just outside the northern (some might say "sleepy") NSW township of Murwillumbah.The environmentally-aware residents of "Murbah" (as it is locally known) were swift and decisive in implementing their own salvage ops. Lets just say it DIDN'T need a containment team!I saw this 7 minute epic at a local film festival last year and can vouch for the worth of each minute. Great stuff!Row row row your boat merrily down the stream (Hic!)
benny_joe This "comedy" short is just about one of the worst things I've ever seen! If you ever get to watch "Murbah Swamp Beer", don't bother. Go and read a book for 7 minutes instead...
gough Brooke Wilson and her eventual partner "Gary" Doust are to be congratulated for providing me with the most enjoyable seven minutes of my life as they peeled away the veneer of alcoholic dimwittedness to reveal the true Australian psyche in this remarkable and moving film. Exploding the surrealism of the underlying metaphor is what these two talented young film-makers are about, and how they managed it with half of the outback plastered over the plastic optics of a mini-DV camera would have defeated even Lars von Trier, from whom they surely must have taken inspiration. An absolute masterpiece and quite the best story of in-bred villagers retrieving things from a river that you're likely to see this year.
roscoe_a and I don't mean the bread.....I mean it was AWESOME!!!!! see it now or die! A very thorough and hilarious analysis of a freak accident involving large quantities of yummy beer. Congrats all round to the cast and crew of this wonderful production.

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