Donovan Quick

Synopsis

The Pannicks are like any other dysfunctional family. Lucy Pannick drinks, her son Jim steals cars, her grandmother forgets to put her clothes on and her learning disabled brother, Sandy, runs model trains in his room all night. But when the mysterious and well-spoken Donovan Quick takes up residence as their new lodger, things will never be the same again.





When the multi-national bus company Windmill Transport takes over the local trains and leaves Sandy with no way to get to his day centre, Donovan starts up a one-bus company with Sandy to replace the lost service. Against all odds, the fledgling Quick and Pannick Buses becomes so successful that the ever-voracious Windmill Transport decides to poach the route for itself.





Donovan Quick, however, doesn't turn out to be the pushover Windmill Transport thought he might be. And, like his inspiration Don Quixote, Donovan manages to thwart Windmill at their own game, galvanising the community and transforming forever the lives of Lucy, Jim, Gran and Sandy Pannick in the process.

Details

Year

2000

Type of film

Features

Running Time

104 mins

Format

Betacam Sp, Digi Beta

Director

David Blair

Producer

Jane Tranter, Barbara McKissack

Editor

Mark Day

Director of Photography

Peter Sinclair

Sound

Paul Hamblin

Music

Anne Dudley

Principal Cast

Colin Firth, Katy Murphy, David O'Hara, Liz Smith, David Westhead, David Brown

Executive Screen Writer

Donna Franceschild

Genre

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 26th November 2005