Trivia / The Magic Pudding

• All-Star Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Jack Thompson, Toni Collette... and starring John Cleese as Albert.
• Box Office Bomb: Grossed A$1.1 million against an estimated A$12 million budget, bankrupting its producers (see below).
• Creator Killer: Bombed hard enough to force its producers, Energee Entertainment, to shut down in 2002.
• The Danza: Sam Neill playing Sam Sawnoff. Subverted in that the source material was written decades before Neill was born.

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