Nostradamus Kid DVD

This genial Australian coming-of-age film is based on the experiences of its narrator, writer and director Bob Ellis. The first part of the film covers the difficulties teenaged Ken (Noah Thomas) has at a church summer camp run by the Seventh Day Adventists; he is not 'with the program,' and consistently asks heretical questions during prayer meetings. Also, he can't help keeping a watchful, admiring eye on a visiting preacher's pretty daughter. He gets to ditch his ultra-religious background when he goes to work at a university newspaper some six years later and, despite (or perhaps because of) his scruffy appearance, he finds himself attractive to girls. One legacy of his years at church is a pervading sense that the world may end soon, and when he insists that his new girlfriend drive him away from Sydney in her father's car because he anticipates nuclear war as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, it is the last straw in their relationship.

Ken Elkin is a randy young man who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal he wants to accomplish -- bedding the love of his life, who just happens to be the local pastor's daughter.

When an uptight, conservative young man becomes convinced the world is going to end, he decides to cut loose and have some fun--and some women--before it's too late. A coming-of-age comedy.

Co-produced by Beyond Films. Copyright 1992 Simpson Le Mesurier Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation.

This is the only Peter Gwynn video.