Garage Days is a 2002 Australian film directed by Alex Proyas

Alex Proyas

Alexander "Alex" Proyas is a Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing such films as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He is known for employing a stylish photographic techniques in his films, with dark overtones usually in a post-apocalyptic...

 and written by Proyas, Dave Warner and Michael Udesky. The Garage Days soundtrack includes the song "Garage Days" featuring Katie Noonan

Katie Noonan

Katie Anne Noonan is an Australian singer-songwriter. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she sings in the groups george and Elixir, duets with her mother, Maggie Noonan and is currently playing with support from the group The...

, David McCormack

David McCormack

David McCormack is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter who fronted Brisbane-based rock group Custard .-Early groups:...

 and Andrew Lancaster

Andrew Lancaster

Andrew Lancaster is an Australian director.He has been awarded in the Asia-Pacific Film Festival twice. More specific, in 1993 he won the "Best Short Film" award for the film Palace Cafe and in 2002 the "Best Film Award" for the film In Search of Mike....

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Plot

Garage Days is the story of a young Sydney garage band desperately trying to make it big in the competitive world of rock'n'roll

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

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Cast

• Kick Gurry
  Kick Gurry
  Christopher "Kick" Gurry an Australian actor born in Melbourne, Australia.-Early life:Gurry got his nickname when his brother could not say Christopher so he said Kicker...
  
   as Freddy
• Maya Stange
  Maya Stange
  Maya Stange is an Australian television and film actress known for starring roles in the films "Garage Days" and "XX/XY" . She was born in Perth, Australia...
  
   as Kate
• Pia Miranda
  Pia Miranda
  Pia Miranda is an Australian, multi-award-winning actress whose career was launched with her successful 1999 role in the feature film Looking for Alibrandi, an Australian film based on the novel by Melina Marchetta....
  
   as Tanya
• Russell Dykstra
  Russell Dykstra
  Russell Dykstra is an Australian actor of screen, stage and TV. He trained at the schools of Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaulier.-Partial filmography:* Soft Fruit , 1999 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role...
  
   as Bruno
• Brett Stiller as Joe
• Chris Sadrinna
  Chris Sadrinna
  Chris Sadrinna is an Australian actor.He appeared in Home and Away as Brad Armstrong, during 2006 and 2007. Sadrinna played Lucy in the movie Garage Days, and also starred in Ivan Sen's debut feature film Beneath Clouds. Both movies also featured Holly Brisley, his fellow cast member in Home and...
  
   as Lucy
• Andy Anderson
  Andy Anderson (actor)
  Andy Anderson is an actor best known for his roles on both Australian and New Zealand television.-Career:...
  
   as Kevin
• Marton Csokas
  Marton Csokas
  -Early life:Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His mother, a nurse, is of Irish and Danish descent; his Hungarian-born father, also named Márton Csókás, worked as a mechanical engineer...
  
   as Shad Kern
• Yvette Duncan as Angie
• Tiriel Mora
  Tiriel Mora
  Tiriel Mora is an Australian television and film actor. He is the son of Melbourne artist Mirka Mora and Georges Mora , German-born Australian entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur and restaurateur....
  
   as Thommo
• Holly Brisley
  Holly Brisley
  Holly Brisley is an Australian actress and television presenter. She began her career at the age of 15 on Agro's Cartoon Connection and more recently portrayed Amanda Vale-Baker on Home And Away...
  
   as Scarlet
• Matthew Le Nevez
  Matthew Le Nevez
  Matthew Le Nevez is an award-winning Australian actor.-Early life :Le Nevez was born in Canberra in 1978 and attended The French-Australian School, Telopea Park School and St Edmund's College, Canberra before accepted into NIDA aged 17...
  
   as Toby
• Angela Keep
  Angela Keep
  Angela Keep is an Australian actress.Keep's television debut on the sitcom Hey Dad..!. She played Jenny Kelly, taking over the role from Sarah Monahan, on the show for two seasons, from 1993 until 1994. In 1997, she starred in children's mini series, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord and in the...
  
   as Shad's Assistant

Reception

The film received mixed reviews. Based on reviews from 52 critics collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

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, 44% gave Garage Days a positive review. At Metacritic

Metacritic

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, which assigns a weighted average

Weighted mean

The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...

 score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 50 based on 19 reviews.

External links

• Garage Days at the National Film and Sound Archive
  National Film and Sound Archive
  The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...