Bad Eggs

Bad Eggs is a 2003 Australian comedy movie, written and directed by Tony Martin. It stars Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin and Judith Lucy, with Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Nicholas Bell, Steven Vidler, Shaun Micallef, Robyn Nevin, Brett Swain, Denis Moore and Pete Smith having supporting roles.

A Magistrate named Poulgrain takes his own life in an exhaust fumefilled car but in his deaththroes, he releases the handbrake whereupon his car rolls down the road all the way into the middle of a busy shopping centre where a pair of overzealous detectives empty their firearms into his corpse. Disgraced, the two detectives, Ben Kinnear and his best mate Mike Paddockboth members of the muchhyped Zero Tolerance Unit ZTU, are demoted back to uniform duties. Things get worse when they pay a visit to the Magistrates widow Eleanor and accidentally burn her house down. Things become more complicated when Julie Bale, a journalist and a former policeofficer and onetime partner of Kinnears, is arrested on a charge of blackmailing the Magistrate. Kinnear starts to smell a rat when he discovers that a computer disc was found in the dead mans car but was tampered with by persons unknown. Kinnears boss Gillespie questions the two detectives in charge of the Poulgrain case, Wicks amp Pendlebury as to what happened to the original disc. Without warning, Wicks shoots dead Gillespie and Pendlebury and then deliberately wounds himself, rearranging the crime scene to make it appear Pendlebury fired first.Kinnear and Paddock are both suspended from duty by newly returned ZTU chief Ted Pratt. But with the assistance of IToperator Northey, they break into the police database unit and copy the original file. But Pratt and Wicks confront them before they can leave the building and it turns out that the file has been altered, now implicating Kinnear in corrupt activities. Kinnear and Paddock narrowly escape an assassination attempt when the latters house is blown up by explosives set by Wicks. The two detectives are captured by Wicks amp his cronies and are then confronted by Pratt, now revealed to be the ringleader of the ZTU corruption. It is now clear that Julie Bale is innocent, having been used as a convenient scapegoat because of her journalistic enquiries into the corruption allegat

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