Directed by:
Andrew DominikScreenplay:
Andrew DominikComposer:
Mick HarveyCast:
Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Dan Wyllie, Bill Young, Vince Colosimo, Kenny Graham, Kate Beahan, Richard Sutherland, Gary Waddell, Brian Mannix (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
What happens when you take the toughest guy you can imagine and make him Australian? He gets even tougher. Mark "Chopper" Read, best-selling author and underworld executioner, is Australia's most infamous and self-promoting criminal. His knack for killing and storytelling set him on an unlikely path toward the fame he has always dreamed of attaining. The film begins in a maximum-security prison, where Chopper's erratic behavior and dishonesty lead his "friend" to stab him repeatedly. Fearing further retribution, he cuts off his ears to obtain a transfer. The story then jumps eight years.
Chopper, who's now on the fast track to a place where fact and fiction are increasingly blurred, is released. Filled with resentment and guilt and searching desperately for his hidden enemy, he kills a minor criminal in a fit of paranoia but manages to beat the charge by virtue of his now well-honed fabricating ability. However, he's charged with another offense and returned to jail where he writes an exaggerated account of his life of crime.
(Vertigo Releasing)
Cast
![Eric Bana](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267637_cbcc0e.jpg)
Eric Bana
Australia
Best movies:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Mary and Max (2009)
Simon Lyndon
UK
Best movies:
The Well (1997)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Blackrock (1997)
![David Field](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/280/280978_37268b.jpg)
David Field
Best movies:
A Long Way from Home: Dadah Is Death (1988) (TV movie)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Unfinished Sky (2007)
![Dan Wyllie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/125/158125874_ea049e.jpg)
Dan Wyllie
Australia
Best movies:
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Lucky Miles (2007)
Charlie's Country (2013)
Bill Young
Australia
Best movies:
The Matrix (1999)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
![Vince Colosimo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271259_21559b.jpg)
Vince Colosimo
Australia
Best movies:
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Body of Lies (2008)
Lantana (2001)
Kenny Graham
Best movies:
You Can't Stop the Murders (2003)
Chopper (2000)
![Kate Beahan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/281/281132_48e9b6.jpg)
Kate Beahan
Australia
Best movies:
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
The Report (2019)
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014) (TV movie)
Richard Sutherland
Australia
Best movies:
The Daughter (2015)
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
Chopper (2000)
Gary Waddell
Australia
Best movies:
The Proposition (2005)
Charlie's Country (2013)
The Stranger (2022)
Brian Mannix
Australia
Best movies:
Chopper (2000)
Robert Rabiah
Best movies:
On the Beach (2000) (TV movie)
Childhood's End (2015) (series)
Deadline Gallipoli (2015) (series)
Serge Liistro
Best movies:
Chopper (2000)
Peter Hardy
Australia
Best movies:
Chopper (2000)
Halifax f.p. (1994) (series)
The Ripper (1997) (TV movie)
![Fletcher Humphrys](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/096/159096756_fe1808.jpg)
Fletcher Humphrys
Australia
Best movies:
The Heartbreak Kid (1993)
The Dressmaker (2015)
John Doe: Vigilante (2014)
David Ross Paterson
Best movies:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
On the Beach (2000) (TV movie)
Renée Brack
Best movies:
Chopper (2000)