In this brutal film, a gang of hard-luck Australian skinheads takes its frustrations out on Vietnamese immigrants. Hatred pulled the skinheads together, but the love of a woman pulls them apart just as the foreigners they have been terrorizing decide to fight back. Actor Russell Crowe shines in one of his first leading roles in this controversial hit from Australia.

ROMPER STOMPER is a morally ambiguous look at a group of neo-Nazis raising hell in Melbourne, Australia. A gang of vacant, brutish young thugs headed by a terrifying but charismatic MEIN KAMPF-quoting skinhead named Hando declares war on a community of Vietnamese immigrants. In between bouts of vicious racial violence, Hando picks up a drug-addicted rich girl in a bar and adopts her as his lover. When Hando's second-in-command, the more sensitive, semihumane Davey, falls for Hando's new girlfriend, the stage is set for a potentially explosive love triangle.

Shot in Eastmancolor.

Originally released in theaters with an NC-17 rating.

Nominated for nine Australian Film Institute Awards (the Australian equivalent of the Academy Awards). The film won Best Actor (Russell Crowe), Best Original Music, and Best Achievement in Sound.

Responses to the film have differed widely, making it the subject of much controversy. Director Geoffrey Wright ostensibly refuses to take a moral stance on the neo-Nazi skinheads' behavior. But many critics feel that Wright--whether consciously or unconsciously--sympathizes with these characters and subtly pushes the audience to do the same. It is also felt that the film, which uses flashy camera techniques and propulsive music to tell its story, ends up aestheticizing the violence it portrays.

Geoffrey Wright was formerly a film critic in Australia.

Daniel Pollock, who plays Davey, committed suicide about a year prior to the film's U.S. release.

Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.

Available to buy in the UK.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Dual Side
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Letterbox - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Geoffrey Wright - Director
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer

Russell Crowe: Australian Actor, GLADIATOR (2000)
Jacqueline McKenzie: Actress, ROMPER STOMPER
Daniel Pollock: Actor/"Romper Stomper"
Alex Scott: British Supporting Actor
Dan Wyllie: ACTOR\"SPOTSWOOD"
Leigh Russell: Australian Star, '90s, ROMPER STOMPER
James McKenna: Australian Star, ROMPER STOMPER
Tri Phan: Australian Star, ROMPER STOMPER

Geoffrey Wright: Australian Director

Ian Pringle: Australian Producer, Director, with Daniel Scharf
Daniel Scharf: Australian Producer, began in late '80s, with Ian Pringle

Geoffrey Wright: Australian Director

John Clifford White: Composer/"Romper Stomper"

Bill Murphy: Australian Editor, TV and Film, began in early '90s

"[T]he film succeeds in exploring an ugly world without being seduced by its inhabitants."
"...Viscerally supercharged....[Crowe's portrayal] exudes an antiheroic charisma..."
"...Few movies have shoved an audience so brutally into battle....Crowe makes a mesmerizing monster..."
"...Crowe dominates the screen..."
"...Dramatic....There's something touching in the very banality of the film's romantic rivalries..."