Kenny (2006 film)
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| Directed by | Clayton Jacobson |
| Produced by | Clayton Jacobson Rohan Timlock |
| Written by | Clayton Jacobson Shane Jacobson |
| Starring | Shane Jacobson Eve von Bibra Ronald Jacobson Ian Dryden Chris David Jesse Jacobson |
| Release date(s) | August 17, 2006 |
| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Kenny is a 2006 Australian mockumentary film starring Shane Jacobson as Kenny, a Melbourne plumber who works for plumbing company Splashdown.
The film is shot entirely on location in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Sydney and Nashville, Tennessee in the United States of America.
In Australia, there has been high acclaim for the film which continues to receive excellent reviews with an average of four to four-and-a-half stars. Due to this, the number of screens which show the movie has been increased and there is currently discussion relating to the possibility of releasing the movie overseas.
Director Clayton Jacobson describes Kenny as "the Dalai-Lama of Waste Management, eternally optimistic and always ready to put others before himself. Kenny represents the humbling nature of common decency."
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[edit] Synopsis
Kenny is a divorced, thirty-something portaloo toilet installer. He identifies himself as a plumber, while his father openly refers to him as a 'glorified turd-burglar', and his bourgeois brother finds it embarrassing to be in his company. His wife has left him and taken their son. His mother (with whom he was very close) passed away several years earlier.
Kenny is good at his job and refuses to change careers to placate others. His life, at first glance, seems fairly routine - he’s a meat-and-three-veg kind of guy who enjoys a beer and the odd fart joke.
Then summer arrives and 'every bastard starts having a festival'. Kenny's life is thrown into chaos. With real Melbourne events such as The Melbourne Cup, Calder Park Street Drag Racing, Australian International Airshow and the St Kilda Festival as a backdrop, Kenny demonstrates his star qualities.
In the middle of summer, when Kenny thinks he is on top of his annual chaos, his boss asks him to attend a trade expo in Nashville, Tennessee. Kenny steps out of his overalls for the first time and nervously boards an international flight. His discomfort is evident, but by both breaking and fixing one of the plane's toilets, he strikes up a friendship with an air hostess.
Kenny fumbles his way through the trade expo and unfamiliar corporate world. He inadvertently schmoozes a deal to sell his company's 'corporate bathroom' to a Japanese firm, after having befriended a Japanese executive whom he calls 'The Sushi Cowboy'.
Upon his return to Australia, Kenny is faced with both career and family dilemmas. His 70 year old father is in hospital and needs an operation. His boss offers him a managerial position which would involve trading his overalls for a suit. Even though this would please his father, ex-wife and boss, Kenny decides that his current role makes him who he is, and therefore decides to stick to the camaraderie of his mates and concentrate on his personal life.
[edit] Quotes from the movie
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"Mate, it's not that I'm not listening. But there's a smell in there that is gonna outlast religion". -Kenny
"I don't know what all the fuss is about, it's 80% water... and we've got chemicals to take care of the remaining 20%". -Kenny
"It's what you come to expect... they think I'm the poo monster". -Kenny
"Dad's emotional bank account had all of two cents in it". -Kenny
"There's the urinal, and being a male, you have a prong on you that points forward, so I don't understand how they get it on their feet. They must point it down". -Kenny
"Funny part is parents look at me and say 'that's not much of a job, is it?'. And I say 'well you had kids'. 'You spent the first two years handling their shit, and you weren't getting paid for that'. They shit green, the only things that should be green are pears, apples and Martians". -Kenny
"There's another classic example of someone having a two inch arsehole and us having installed only one inch piping". -Kenny
"Better stock up the poo tickets boys, this one's gonna get a flogging today". -Kenny
"It's as silly as a bum full of smarties". -Kenny
"As mad as a clown's cock". -Kenny
"You'd need to be Andre the Giant to move that thing it weighs about 2 ton" -Kenny
"I drink beer like it's going out of fashion and I'm the new trend setter" -Kenny
"People freak out, coz they think I'm handling the stuff. I dunno if they think I eat it, or whether I scrub it on myself... I plumb it." -Kenny
"It takes a certain kind of person to do what I do, if you're a fireman all the kids will want to jump on the back of the truck and follow you to a fire... there's not going to be any kids wanting to do that with me." -Kenny
"As far as smells go, your body is only in shock for about the first 7 to 12 seconds and after that you get used to it very quickly. That's why a man can read a newspaper or magazine from front to back in a toilet in his own smell and not notice it. Mind you the next person that walks in will think they have been smacked in the head with a poo bat and if a woman walks after ya it'll kill em, knock em in half." -Kenny
"I want 273% from you fellas today, we're gonna be busier than a one-arm brick layer in Baghdad." -Kenny
"You know everyone will deny the fact that they look at their poo, but everyone does. You know the ancient Greeks, back two thousand years ago when Christ was alive, they used to use poo or look at poo to forecast the future. Mind you, if they'd seen some of the poo that I've seen at some of the festivals the future looks pretty bleak." -Kenny
"From behind, Mum looked like a fridge with a head on it, but she was the first woman I ever loved and the kindest woman I've ever met." -Kenny
"When you spend more time with other people's poo than you do your own wife, you gotta pay the penalty." -Kenny
"i didnt pay all that money to put you through school so that you could become a glorified turd burglar" - Kenny's dad
"thank your grandad for the 20 cents mate" - Kenny
"well when I meet god i'll give him my full 125% undivided attention" - Kenny
[edit] Awards and film festivals
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) 2006: Nominated: Best Film (Clayton Jacobson, Rohan Timlock), Best Direction (Clayton Jacobson), Best Original Screenplay (Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson), Best Editing (Clayton Jacobson, Sean Lander), Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Jacobson)
- Won: Best Lead Actor (Shane Jacobson)
- Film Critics Circle of Australia 2006: Won: Best Actor (Shane Jacobson), Best Original Screenplay; Nominated: Best Film, Best Director
- if Awards 2006: Won: Best Feature Film, Best Script (Clayton Jacobson, Shane Jacobson), Best Sound (Craig Carter, Peter Smith), Box Office Achievement; Nominated: Best Director (Clayton Jacobsen), Best Editing (Clayton Jacobson, Sean Lander)
