I quite liked this movie. Its a bit feeble but its alright. They obviously used Kylie because of her superstar status and maybe she isn't the best choice but she pulls it off quite well. I liked it when the woman who takes Lola in teaches her manners. Her hair looks really dodgy when she bleaches it though. All in all not bad but it could've been better.
16 Reviews
A Great Story About A Love Worth Fighting For With Superb Performances By Kylie Minogue & Charlie Schlatter
gnowaczek24 August 2015
I saw this movie for the first time on you tube last week and found it to be a strong and moving love story. The Delinquents tells the tale of a young teenage couple in an Australian town in the 1950's who face opposition from parents, the law and other people for being together and in love.
Kylie Minogue is a talented individual not just in the music industry but also in acting as well, her portrayal of Lola Lovell was brilliant and heartfelt. Even though this is her first movie role she does a great job with the material given to work with.
Charlie Schlatter is sensitive and boyishly handsome as telegraph delivery boy Brownie Hansen, his character in the film is so sweet and his feelings so genuine.
What makes this story so unique is how the young couple fights to find a way to stay together despite forces trying to pull them apart time after time. Why this film has a rating of only 5.5/10 is surprising I'd give it a 6.4.
Kylie Minogue is a talented individual not just in the music industry but also in acting as well, her portrayal of Lola Lovell was brilliant and heartfelt. Even though this is her first movie role she does a great job with the material given to work with.
Charlie Schlatter is sensitive and boyishly handsome as telegraph delivery boy Brownie Hansen, his character in the film is so sweet and his feelings so genuine.
What makes this story so unique is how the young couple fights to find a way to stay together despite forces trying to pull them apart time after time. Why this film has a rating of only 5.5/10 is surprising I'd give it a 6.4.
Not so bad
john-195227 October 2010
As romcoms go I rather like this movie. Kylie was young and inexperienced but showed some talent. Bruno Lawrence is a great 'wise old man' figure> If anything Chalie Schlatter lets the side down a bit. As an Aussie I know the chances of their being a yank teen living in Bundaberg in the 50's were pretty scarce, about the same as finding an Aussie in Wichita. But its a pleasant feel good movie. I've watched it half a dozen or more times and keep watching so it must have something. And it does bring back an era much changed since, where people get arrested for simply not having enough money in their bank account, and police could give folks a good smack in the chops and get away with it. A time of a lot more innocence than now. These days Brownie would get Lola pregnant and then shoot through leaving her to cope with her heroin addiction. Its nice to believe there was a time when love conquered all.
All their lives they were told they mustn't, they shouldn't, they can't
.. one year, they did. A love that was not meant too be, but could not be broken!
Old Joe29 April 2004
The 1989 Australian movie, The Delinquents', is a grand look into the conservative 1950's Australia, how harsh it was for young people to live and be in love. Yet this movie also has a good feel to it and shows what defiance can do for your life. Although it can make it extremely hard, it also liberates teenagers and allows them to choose the life they want for themselves.
Adolescences the time when teenage friendship boils over into adult desire and the time when Lola Lovell meets a boy called Brownie Hansen. Too young to be together, too in love to be apart, Lola and Brownie's obsessive passion for each other breaks all the rules laid down by their parents and society. Quickly branded as rebels and defiant troublemakers, they will be forced to face the hardest punishment of all separation! But NO person, NO law and NO institution will ever keep them apart. To Lola and Brownie, the first love is the ONLY love there is.
This movie's screenplay is based upon a novel of the same written by Criena Rohan. I believe that it would be an interesting read, as it looks into a very historical time in the Australian country and allows us to understand that young people especially, were not give the freedom and respect that they deserved. The story also has a very strong love story placed within it and the characters we are presented with take risks, some worth it, some not. But all in all, they prove that risks are a big part of growing up. The screenplay for this film by Clayton Frohman, certainly gives a good insight into all these areas.
Although this film might seem slow, mushy and only for romantics, it is presented in a most noteworthy way. Director Chris Thomson allows us to see how hard the times are, especially for Lola and Brownie. He certainly leaves nothing to the imagination when it comes to seeing both of these characters being violated. I also feel it is the good work of Thomson that we get a historically correct recreation of the times, as places like Melbourne, Brisbane and Bundaberg, look the way they would have been back in the 50's.
The main stars in the film are Brownie (Charlie Schlatter) and Lola (famous Australian Icon Kylie Minogue). These two characters quickly developed a very intense, romantic and physical relationship. Brownie is a guy that is abused by father and the law (and the film clearly shows this), while Lola, who is deeply love struck, is treated very harshly by her conservative/liberal mother (Angela Punch-McGregor). The pair in their own way stand up for themselves. Although Schlatter has little to say here, is effective as Brownie. He really is a good guy. Kylie looks stunning' and is great as the young girl who grows up quickly. She has some of the more memorable lines in the film and one of the best moments in the movie has to be when Lola right hooks (punches) her Aunt Westbury (Melissa Jaffer) in the face.
Brownie and Lola have some friends in the midst of all these bad people in their lives. Brownie is befriended by his sailing boss Bosun (the late Bruno Lawrence), who is a man that deeply cares for Brownies well-being. Bruno is great in this film and is from the popular Current Affairs spoof Frontline'. While Brownie and Lola meet a happy couple Lyle (Todd Boyce) and Mavis (Desirée Smith). What happens to this couple is very tough, but this helps Brownie and Lola, and is another moving moment in the film.
The soundtrack to this movie is just wonderful and adds to the historical time and romantic feel that the story has. Songs from it include Only You' Since I Met You Baby' She's My Baby', Great Balls of Fire' and Lucille'. While we have a song from Kylie herself entitled Tears on My Pillow' and another song by the Aussie act Johnny Diesel (aka Mark Lizotte) and the Injectors called Somebody on my love'. This is one great compilation of music for an Australian movie.
After all these positive words on this movie, I know I will be shot down by other people around the world who truly do hate this film. Some of the comments already placed on this movie's IMDb page are very harsh and have nothing good to say. I disagree with these negative opinions, simply because I had a good experience watching this movie many years ago and just recently. I believe that this movie is not to dissimilar to the 1985 American sex comedy Mischief', as it certainly had similar themes, characters and looked into the same time. The delinquents' is an Australian movie that is a must see!
CMRS gives The Delinquents': 4 (Very Good Film)
Adolescences the time when teenage friendship boils over into adult desire and the time when Lola Lovell meets a boy called Brownie Hansen. Too young to be together, too in love to be apart, Lola and Brownie's obsessive passion for each other breaks all the rules laid down by their parents and society. Quickly branded as rebels and defiant troublemakers, they will be forced to face the hardest punishment of all separation! But NO person, NO law and NO institution will ever keep them apart. To Lola and Brownie, the first love is the ONLY love there is.
This movie's screenplay is based upon a novel of the same written by Criena Rohan. I believe that it would be an interesting read, as it looks into a very historical time in the Australian country and allows us to understand that young people especially, were not give the freedom and respect that they deserved. The story also has a very strong love story placed within it and the characters we are presented with take risks, some worth it, some not. But all in all, they prove that risks are a big part of growing up. The screenplay for this film by Clayton Frohman, certainly gives a good insight into all these areas.
Although this film might seem slow, mushy and only for romantics, it is presented in a most noteworthy way. Director Chris Thomson allows us to see how hard the times are, especially for Lola and Brownie. He certainly leaves nothing to the imagination when it comes to seeing both of these characters being violated. I also feel it is the good work of Thomson that we get a historically correct recreation of the times, as places like Melbourne, Brisbane and Bundaberg, look the way they would have been back in the 50's.
The main stars in the film are Brownie (Charlie Schlatter) and Lola (famous Australian Icon Kylie Minogue). These two characters quickly developed a very intense, romantic and physical relationship. Brownie is a guy that is abused by father and the law (and the film clearly shows this), while Lola, who is deeply love struck, is treated very harshly by her conservative/liberal mother (Angela Punch-McGregor). The pair in their own way stand up for themselves. Although Schlatter has little to say here, is effective as Brownie. He really is a good guy. Kylie looks stunning' and is great as the young girl who grows up quickly. She has some of the more memorable lines in the film and one of the best moments in the movie has to be when Lola right hooks (punches) her Aunt Westbury (Melissa Jaffer) in the face.
Brownie and Lola have some friends in the midst of all these bad people in their lives. Brownie is befriended by his sailing boss Bosun (the late Bruno Lawrence), who is a man that deeply cares for Brownies well-being. Bruno is great in this film and is from the popular Current Affairs spoof Frontline'. While Brownie and Lola meet a happy couple Lyle (Todd Boyce) and Mavis (Desirée Smith). What happens to this couple is very tough, but this helps Brownie and Lola, and is another moving moment in the film.
The soundtrack to this movie is just wonderful and adds to the historical time and romantic feel that the story has. Songs from it include Only You' Since I Met You Baby' She's My Baby', Great Balls of Fire' and Lucille'. While we have a song from Kylie herself entitled Tears on My Pillow' and another song by the Aussie act Johnny Diesel (aka Mark Lizotte) and the Injectors called Somebody on my love'. This is one great compilation of music for an Australian movie.
After all these positive words on this movie, I know I will be shot down by other people around the world who truly do hate this film. Some of the comments already placed on this movie's IMDb page are very harsh and have nothing good to say. I disagree with these negative opinions, simply because I had a good experience watching this movie many years ago and just recently. I believe that this movie is not to dissimilar to the 1985 American sex comedy Mischief', as it certainly had similar themes, characters and looked into the same time. The delinquents' is an Australian movie that is a must see!
CMRS gives The Delinquents': 4 (Very Good Film)
We Only Want Social Evils Removed
JamesHitchcock8 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Now that she is so well known as a pop star, it seems strange to think that Kylie Minogue was once better known as an actress; indeed, when her first hit "The Locomotion" came out it was dismissed as a soap star's attempt at a novelty record. "The Delinquents" was Kylie's first feature film, a teenage romance set in the Australia of the 1950s. The word "delinquent" normally means a criminal, often a teenage hooligan, but the young people shown in this film do not, at first sight, appear to fit that definition at all.
Lola Lovell and Brownie Hansen are working-class teenagers from the small town of Bundaberg. Both are from difficult family backgrounds, having grown up without their fathers. Lola is the daughter of an unmarried mother; Brownie's parents are divorced. Lola's mother is, outwardly, a devout Catholic but inwardly a narrow-minded hypocrite. Brownie's mother is weak and can do nothing to protect him from his obnoxious stepfather Bert, a man who demands respect from Brownie and thinks he can compel it by administering vicious beatings. It is therefore hardly surprising that the youngsters, starved of affection, should fall madly in love. Lola becomes pregnant and they attempt to run away together, but this attempt is frustrated by their parents. Despite her Catholic principles, Lola's mother forces her to have an abortion (presumably legal in Australia at this period, when it was still illegal in Britain).
The most interesting part of the film comes when Brownie does manage to leave home and finds a job as a merchant seaman. His father was an American sailor (was this detail added to explain away Charlie Schlatter's accent?), and Brownie's great ambition has always been to follow him in a career at sea. Lola also manages to escape from Bundaberg and makes her way to Sydney, where she and Brownie are reunited. For a time, it looks as though all will end happily, but their problems are just beginning.
We Poms frequently look on Australia as a relaxed, tolerant society, but the country we see here is anything but. It was, of course, Australia which gave the word "wowser" (killjoy) to the English language, and according to an Australian friend of mine the word can refer not only to narrow-minded moralists but also to high-minded idealists who make it their business to mind everyone else's, in the interests of the greatest happiness of the greatest number. (One legend, unfortunately not supported by the compilers of dictionaries, has it that the word is an acronym for We Only Want Social Evils Removed). There are plenty of wowsers of this sort in the film.
Brownie and Lola are arrested by the police and charged with "vagrancy". The film never explains exactly what the elements of this crime are under Australian law, but it would appear that it is sufficient to be young and short of money. (Under English law a person can only be convicted of vagrancy if they attempt to support themselves by begging, something which Brownie and Lola never do).
Brownie is fined, but Lola, being under eighteen, is taken into care and forbidden to see Brownie again. This is presented not as a punishment but rather as being for her own good. "It's for your own good" is the watchword of every high-minded wowser, and one we hear a lot in this film. (It was, for example, for Lola's "own good" that she was forced to have an abortion). For Lola's own good she is sent to live with Auntie Westbury, a court-approved foster mother, and a first-class wowser in her own right. Auntie is played by Melissa Jaffer as Australia's most monstrous suburbanite since Edna Everage, an amusing caricature of the complacent, middle-aged middle-class square who disapproves of young people and all their ways, especially sex and rock music. When Lola rebels against Auntie's regime, she is sent to reform school. For her own good, of course. There is a subplot involving Lola's friends Lyle and Mavis, a married couple; when Mavis dies their young daughter is taken away from its father and put into care on the grounds that he is unemployed. (For which read: because he is poor, working-class and therefore unlikely, in the eyes of high-minded wowsers, to prove a good father).
Most of the film rarely rises above the level of a sentimental soap opera in which Lola and Brownie are the idealised heroes and, with a few exceptions, the adults (anyone over twenty) the villains. Those exceptions are Lyle and Mavis and, to some extent, the ship's bosun who befriends Brownie, although even he has his blind spots; he advises Brownie not to get involved with Lola as romance might be an impediment to his seafaring career. There are no particularly memorable acting performances; on the basis of this film, Kylie was probably wise to concentrate on her singing rather than her acting. She is fine when portraying Lola as a sweet and innocent young thing, less so when her character turns truculent and rebellious under severe provocation from the System. The film is, however, worth watching for those scenes which provide an insight into fifties' Australia at its most reactionary. 6/10
Lola Lovell and Brownie Hansen are working-class teenagers from the small town of Bundaberg. Both are from difficult family backgrounds, having grown up without their fathers. Lola is the daughter of an unmarried mother; Brownie's parents are divorced. Lola's mother is, outwardly, a devout Catholic but inwardly a narrow-minded hypocrite. Brownie's mother is weak and can do nothing to protect him from his obnoxious stepfather Bert, a man who demands respect from Brownie and thinks he can compel it by administering vicious beatings. It is therefore hardly surprising that the youngsters, starved of affection, should fall madly in love. Lola becomes pregnant and they attempt to run away together, but this attempt is frustrated by their parents. Despite her Catholic principles, Lola's mother forces her to have an abortion (presumably legal in Australia at this period, when it was still illegal in Britain).
The most interesting part of the film comes when Brownie does manage to leave home and finds a job as a merchant seaman. His father was an American sailor (was this detail added to explain away Charlie Schlatter's accent?), and Brownie's great ambition has always been to follow him in a career at sea. Lola also manages to escape from Bundaberg and makes her way to Sydney, where she and Brownie are reunited. For a time, it looks as though all will end happily, but their problems are just beginning.
We Poms frequently look on Australia as a relaxed, tolerant society, but the country we see here is anything but. It was, of course, Australia which gave the word "wowser" (killjoy) to the English language, and according to an Australian friend of mine the word can refer not only to narrow-minded moralists but also to high-minded idealists who make it their business to mind everyone else's, in the interests of the greatest happiness of the greatest number. (One legend, unfortunately not supported by the compilers of dictionaries, has it that the word is an acronym for We Only Want Social Evils Removed). There are plenty of wowsers of this sort in the film.
Brownie and Lola are arrested by the police and charged with "vagrancy". The film never explains exactly what the elements of this crime are under Australian law, but it would appear that it is sufficient to be young and short of money. (Under English law a person can only be convicted of vagrancy if they attempt to support themselves by begging, something which Brownie and Lola never do).
Brownie is fined, but Lola, being under eighteen, is taken into care and forbidden to see Brownie again. This is presented not as a punishment but rather as being for her own good. "It's for your own good" is the watchword of every high-minded wowser, and one we hear a lot in this film. (It was, for example, for Lola's "own good" that she was forced to have an abortion). For Lola's own good she is sent to live with Auntie Westbury, a court-approved foster mother, and a first-class wowser in her own right. Auntie is played by Melissa Jaffer as Australia's most monstrous suburbanite since Edna Everage, an amusing caricature of the complacent, middle-aged middle-class square who disapproves of young people and all their ways, especially sex and rock music. When Lola rebels against Auntie's regime, she is sent to reform school. For her own good, of course. There is a subplot involving Lola's friends Lyle and Mavis, a married couple; when Mavis dies their young daughter is taken away from its father and put into care on the grounds that he is unemployed. (For which read: because he is poor, working-class and therefore unlikely, in the eyes of high-minded wowsers, to prove a good father).
Most of the film rarely rises above the level of a sentimental soap opera in which Lola and Brownie are the idealised heroes and, with a few exceptions, the adults (anyone over twenty) the villains. Those exceptions are Lyle and Mavis and, to some extent, the ship's bosun who befriends Brownie, although even he has his blind spots; he advises Brownie not to get involved with Lola as romance might be an impediment to his seafaring career. There are no particularly memorable acting performances; on the basis of this film, Kylie was probably wise to concentrate on her singing rather than her acting. She is fine when portraying Lola as a sweet and innocent young thing, less so when her character turns truculent and rebellious under severe provocation from the System. The film is, however, worth watching for those scenes which provide an insight into fifties' Australia at its most reactionary. 6/10
The only movie I have ever walked out of
dougal-mcrae18 August 2011
This is the only movie I have ever walked out of. I couldn't bear wasting any more of my life watching it. I don't remember the storyline much (I guess because it was forgettable), but do remember the sets being utterly ridiculous e.g. all the cars were from the era, but they all looked like they'd just driven off the showroom floor - in fact better than showroom condition. In what world are all cars like this? Every aspect of the sets were like that. Not well thought out.
On the weird side I saw this in a cinema in George St in Sydney when it came out, and the power went out for about 45 seconds. I found out later this was at the exact moment that the owner of the cinema chain who had recently died, was having his funeral at this exact moment, freaky!
On the weird side I saw this in a cinema in George St in Sydney when it came out, and the power went out for about 45 seconds. I found out later this was at the exact moment that the owner of the cinema chain who had recently died, was having his funeral at this exact moment, freaky!
Kylie and Charlie
videorama-759-85939116 June 2020
This period piece, taking us back to the 50's in Bundaberg, Queensland of all places, is a Romeo and Juliet tale that doesn't fare too bad. Hunky American export (Schlatter) falls for blonde hottie Lola (Minogue) where soon, thanks to adverse opinion by locals, family, they're on the lam, hunted down by police. The movie gets quite serious, as it shows us how ironfisted, stalwart the law was, as well as corrupt. The much missed Bruno Lawrence I liked, as a bosun, who sides with stowaway Schlatter, keeping him and better half, down deck. It's a happy ending in a kind of cruel way, as to having their unlikeable folks in a chow down, but it's one you will remember. You will also remember a woman face from Moving Out, as Minogue's new girlfriend, who provides the most tragic moment of the film. Minogue holds her own as the temptuous and impulsive Lola and she does have a nice a*se, Sexy and flirtatious, she really gives the character oomph, where I did like Schlatter too, but didn't measure up to Kylie. Her mistress at her boarding home, is one of the nastiest pasties I met. As for tears on your pillow, you'll have to wait till the end credits. A good Aussie, period piece drama, especially for you romantics. Delinquents is an unfair term, to these two characters though.
Perfectly good book ruined
rbugden5 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I love the book. It's full of passion, romance, tension... and the movie drags along taking two spunky stars with it. Kylie Minogue was already a major star in Australia, having starred in Neighbours and releasing her first single. The decision to cast her in The Delinquents was surely a marketing ploy. For me, it didn't pay off.
Kylie may have been great in Neighbours, but she was far too sweet and innocent to play the feisty Lola... and, she wasn't of Asian descent as Lola was. Charlie Schlatter was an excellent Brownie, but there was no chemistry between him and Kylie.
By and large, the movie was boring. It dragged on, it lacked the passion of the book, it focused heavily on Kylie and in general, was completely disappointing.
Kylie may have been great in Neighbours, but she was far too sweet and innocent to play the feisty Lola... and, she wasn't of Asian descent as Lola was. Charlie Schlatter was an excellent Brownie, but there was no chemistry between him and Kylie.
By and large, the movie was boring. It dragged on, it lacked the passion of the book, it focused heavily on Kylie and in general, was completely disappointing.
1950's love story starring a capable Kylie..
impossiblehim14 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS Back in 1989 Kylie Minogue had only been a pop star for just over a year...although to me she had already been around for years because i idolised her. So it was really exciting for me, as a fan to see a whole film featuring my favourite girl Kylie.
This is a very simple story of forbidden love in a world where no one seems to care, our 2 lovebirds encounter many obstacles in their pursuit to simply 'be together' and it is that that gives the film it's most romantic elements. Along the way we see the lovebirds mature and change as characters and watch how they unravel whenever they are kept apart. Both come from broken homes and seem lost and in search of love making the viewer root for them and hope for a happy ending. ...some would call the film long-winded and a bit boring but if you want to watch a film without all the twists and turns and silly Hollywood glitz then check it out. This is a film that tries it's best to create a real love story and for that i think it deserves a bit of praise....and Kylie really puts her heart and soul into bringing Lola to life and i think she pulls it off extremely well and at times she nails it to perfection. A fine effort all round.
This is a very simple story of forbidden love in a world where no one seems to care, our 2 lovebirds encounter many obstacles in their pursuit to simply 'be together' and it is that that gives the film it's most romantic elements. Along the way we see the lovebirds mature and change as characters and watch how they unravel whenever they are kept apart. Both come from broken homes and seem lost and in search of love making the viewer root for them and hope for a happy ending. ...some would call the film long-winded and a bit boring but if you want to watch a film without all the twists and turns and silly Hollywood glitz then check it out. This is a film that tries it's best to create a real love story and for that i think it deserves a bit of praise....and Kylie really puts her heart and soul into bringing Lola to life and i think she pulls it off extremely well and at times she nails it to perfection. A fine effort all round.
Kylie Minogue at her best so far.
markrobertpetty18 January 2002
I remember seeing this movie the day it opened (Boxing Day) 1989, and was completely blown away by Kylie's performance. A TV actress, singer and now bona fide movie star, there seemed to be no stopping her. Of course as we now know there were many movie mistakes to follow. But this still stands as one of her finest efforts and is still an enjoyable piece of escapist moviemaking.
Loved it!
beck-b-17 February 2007
Loved this movie,was only 16,had just met and fallen in love with my husband to be,so a real memorable movie for me,really captured what its like to be a teenager in love,when the world seems against you and teenagers really do know whats best for them sometimes and adults can get it so wrong.The anger, frustration and despair of Lola was portrayed so well by Kylie,the music was great ,the actors were great,i loved the scene when they were all dancing and Lola holds the baby ,so the mom can have a proper dance,and when she tells the women who's house shes been sent to live in what she thinks of her after she finds shes hidden Brownies letters,is just amazing.
Now that is a way better romance film than Titanic!
Irishchatter20 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I couldn't believe this movie is underrated, it has such a strong romantic vibes to it, it really gave me chills. Although the movie was quite rough in relation to abortion and mental institution. I found it awful sad when Lola and Brownie were separated because of the fact they weren't married. It does tell ya a time when everything had to be silent about any negativity involved in a persons mental health, what an ignorant era in the society we were living in.
I loved seeing Charlie Schlatter and Kylie Minogue's sex scenes because you could tell they were really in love regardless if they were only just acting!I wonder if they were going out, their scenes looked surreal! Great movie especially Charlie Schlatter ;)
I loved seeing Charlie Schlatter and Kylie Minogue's sex scenes because you could tell they were really in love regardless if they were only just acting!I wonder if they were going out, their scenes looked surreal! Great movie especially Charlie Schlatter ;)
wow
truly_potts11 February 2005
I just saw this film very recently, I don't know why I never saw it sooner. Kylie looks like she was just out of Neighbours and can really blow your socks off acting. I thought the way she transcended from girl to women was very effective.
Charlie I knew from Diagnous Murder so I knew he could do comedy, but he played the love interest very well, and seemly thought out the character very well.
The rest of the cast were superb I don't know they're work personally but they had me from the get go.
The Mavis and Lyle Situation was lovely. Two people who knew what it felt for to be each others true loves.
It was a great film and as much as I like Kylie as an entertainer, I would love to see her act again, maybe the roles reversed she being the strict one.
Go and rent it out, it is a lovely thought out film.
Charlie I knew from Diagnous Murder so I knew he could do comedy, but he played the love interest very well, and seemly thought out the character very well.
The rest of the cast were superb I don't know they're work personally but they had me from the get go.
The Mavis and Lyle Situation was lovely. Two people who knew what it felt for to be each others true loves.
It was a great film and as much as I like Kylie as an entertainer, I would love to see her act again, maybe the roles reversed she being the strict one.
Go and rent it out, it is a lovely thought out film.
Star vehicle for Kylie Minogue
Die beste Freundin8 August 2000
´The Delinquents´ was made just after Kylie´s rise to fame in the music business (thanks to producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman), and is a star vehicle in the tradition of the classic Hollywood movies starring (f.i.) Joan Crawford. Not the plot, but the actress comes in first place in these kind of movies. Every storyline, every camera angle, everything spins around miss Minogue. She gets all the time and space to show off her acting skills, good looks and various hairstyles. This movie would have been a disaster without the star quality Kylie brings to it. Even though she never made it to the level of Madonna or Janet Jackson, she has the attitude that goes with top stardom, and that is what makes her film debut really enjoyable.
good film
grooveF11111 April 2009
an enjoyable, and reasonably well-written teenage drama only slightly impaired by the fact that it's lead was as good as an actress as she was a carpenter.
Akin to one of those welcome but straightforward coming-of-age tales of the fifties or sixties – usually starring James Dean – the Australian film Delinquents, based on the book of the same name, centers on two star-crossed lovers, Lola (Minogue) and yankie Brownie (Charlie Schlatter).
They, much like Minogue's plans for a burgeoning film career, seemed doomed from the beginning – they come from opposite sides of the tracks, their parents have their own plans for both offspring, and, well, you've regrettably got to have a little bit of green to go with the stout heart if you're to make a relationship work.
She looks peachy, but Minogue doesn't prove to be anything more than a former soapstar in the lead role. Schlatter, best known at the time for his roles in clunky comedies like 18 Again and the lead in the TV spin-off of Ferris Bueller, didn't fare much better.
Thankfully, the supporting cast, which included solid Australian talent like Angela Punch McGregor and Bruno Lawrence, was as fine as silver and help the film escape it's boggy areas.
In addition, the film's got a terrific soundtrack – largely Australian artists – that help proceedings kick along in an active and melodious fashion.
Akin to one of those welcome but straightforward coming-of-age tales of the fifties or sixties – usually starring James Dean – the Australian film Delinquents, based on the book of the same name, centers on two star-crossed lovers, Lola (Minogue) and yankie Brownie (Charlie Schlatter).
They, much like Minogue's plans for a burgeoning film career, seemed doomed from the beginning – they come from opposite sides of the tracks, their parents have their own plans for both offspring, and, well, you've regrettably got to have a little bit of green to go with the stout heart if you're to make a relationship work.
She looks peachy, but Minogue doesn't prove to be anything more than a former soapstar in the lead role. Schlatter, best known at the time for his roles in clunky comedies like 18 Again and the lead in the TV spin-off of Ferris Bueller, didn't fare much better.
Thankfully, the supporting cast, which included solid Australian talent like Angela Punch McGregor and Bruno Lawrence, was as fine as silver and help the film escape it's boggy areas.
In addition, the film's got a terrific soundtrack – largely Australian artists – that help proceedings kick along in an active and melodious fashion.
The best thing to be said about the Delinquents is that after 101 minutes - it stops!
uds325 November 2001
Very surprising that in several years, this film has attracted only THREE comments! maybe they're the only people to have sat through it? Come to think of it, the day I took my daughter to see it back in '89, I don't think there WAS anyone else in the theater!
One thing I should point out, Kylie was NOT a superstar when she made this, merely an Aussie export, ex soapie star, squeaking her way to success in Britain - she hadn't MADE it as such! I think she was still in love with Jason Donovan then!
THE DELINQUENTS isn't all bad...just a bit iffy and merely an excuse to showcase Miss Minogue from every camera angle, if not every which way! She plays a headstrong rebellious teenager who falls pregnant to American Charlie Schlatter and is sent to the big city for an abortion. Lots of angst and RISKY BUSINESS type stumbling blocks but hell, you just know they're gonna get back together, and as they dance themselves into the sunset ahead of the final credits you can go home feeling much better!
Funny thing is, compared to her performance in later flicks such as STREETFIGHTER, she should have gotten an Oscar for this!
One thing I should point out, Kylie was NOT a superstar when she made this, merely an Aussie export, ex soapie star, squeaking her way to success in Britain - she hadn't MADE it as such! I think she was still in love with Jason Donovan then!
THE DELINQUENTS isn't all bad...just a bit iffy and merely an excuse to showcase Miss Minogue from every camera angle, if not every which way! She plays a headstrong rebellious teenager who falls pregnant to American Charlie Schlatter and is sent to the big city for an abortion. Lots of angst and RISKY BUSINESS type stumbling blocks but hell, you just know they're gonna get back together, and as they dance themselves into the sunset ahead of the final credits you can go home feeling much better!
Funny thing is, compared to her performance in later flicks such as STREETFIGHTER, she should have gotten an Oscar for this!
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