He is one of the greatest actors: 40 years ago, he played his first role at the age of 15.

Nicole Kidman’s first major role was in The BMX Gang, a color film released in 1983 and directed by Australian Brian Trenchard-Smith. The latter is best known for making The Hunt in 2000, and it was his work on that film that convinced the producers to give him the reins of BMX Gang, or BMX Bandits in the original language.

Nicole Kidman Rebel and Stuntman

Goose, PJ and Judy don’t ride bikes, they ride BMX! Stunts are a part of their daily life and they have no equal when it comes to performing amazing acrobatics on their two wheels. By chance, they come across a package containing walkie-talkies. They sell them to pay for the bicross track, but quickly come under fire from thugs, unhappy that their equipment, intended for arrest purposes, has been sold this way, and from the police, who think they’re compl…

Nicole Kidman, 15, is learning to BMX for the occasion, and the stunts are done by a pro in a wig!

The film is an underdog, like many others, but we can note a very beautiful light and careful picture by John Seeley, who worked in 1975 on the photo of the same director “Man from Hong Kong” and will sign this. One Mosquito Coast, The Dead Poets Circle, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Mr. Ripley or Mad Max: Fury Road. It also finds Nicole Kidman returning to Cold Mountain after years.

But this was not his first appearance!

Technically, BMX Bandits is the second film directed by Nicole Kidman, who previously starred in French Henri Safran’s family drama Bush Christmas, and both films were released in December 1983.

A Bush Christmas is a remake of the 1947 film of the same name, which tells the story of how the children of the Thompson family decide to go in search of a missing horse, which they must compete to win the prize and save the farm. Nicole Kidman stars as Helen, the eldest child, in a family Christmas story worthy of a Disney feature film.

If Bush’s Christmas is rather difficult to watch (his presence on YouTube is poor), Le Gang des BMX was released in a very nice copy by Elephant last November.