Mad Max

George Miller's full-throttle revenge classic launched Mel Gibson's career and ran for years on the drive-in circuit.

Thirty-one years later, the highway mayhem of Mad Max is still jaw-dropping and its primal violence still shocking.

On Wed 25 Feb, cast and crew will reunite live on stage at the Randwick Ritz Cinema for a Popcorn Taxi screening followed by a no-holds-barred Q&A.

Actors Steve Bisley (‘Goose'), Hugh Keays-Byrne (‘Toecutter'), Roger Ward (‘Fifi'), Tim Burns (‘Johnny the Boy'), and Paul Johnstone (‘Cundalini') will join legendary stuntman Grant Page and more special guests yet to be announced.

Mad Max is set in a dystopian near-future society suffering from a prolonged fuel shortage. Civil order is rapidly deteriorating and lawless gangs rampage across the desolate landscape, in defiance of the crumbling police force, the Main Force Patrol (MFP).

An escaped cop killer, the Nightrider, is killed during a high-speed pursuit by a young MFP patrolman, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson). The Nightrider's comrades, a motorcycle gang led by the Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne), hold Max and his partner 'the Goose' (Steve Bisley) responsible.

A chain of events will force Max to throw away his moral and civil responsibilities and with the help of a super-charged V8 XB Falcon coupe... it's war.

For 30 years, this movie held a record in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest profit-to-cost ratio of a motion picture ever, conceding only in 2009 to Paranormal Activity.

Popcorn Taxi is proud to bring this Australian classic to the big screen for one night only to launch the Australian Film Festival - and give old and new audiences a once in a lifetime chance to experience one of the most influential films of all time, and then talk directly to the filmmakers and actors responsible.