The Nostradamus Kid
1993, 120 minutes, Rated M
When the young Ken Elkin (Noah Taylor), an over-sexed youth with a taste for melodrama, first encounters the end of the world, it is at the annual Seventh Day Adventist Camp in 1956. Convinced by an eloquent heretic that all Adventists are to burn in Hell the following Saturday, Elkin fears that his true love for the pastor's daughter will never be consummated. But the world doesn't end...
Arriving in Sydney in 1962 to attend university, Elkin encounters the world's end for a second time while beseiging the wealthy and beautiful Jennie O'Brien (MIRANDA OTTO) with his misguided affection. Belieiving that with the Cuban missile crisis the end is truly nigh, the paranoid Elkin persuades Jennie to flee Sydney for the safety of the nearby mountains. But the much longed-for-apocalypse is once again postponed, and he returns to face the wrath of Jennie's father...
- Director:
- Bob Ellis [2],
- Starring:
- Noah Taylor [24], Miranda Otto [28], Jack Campbell [1], Erick Mitsak [1], Arthur Dignam [10], Peter Gwynne [2],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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