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Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian comedy film, based on the novel "The Dead Heart" by Douglas Kennedy.

Plot

Johnathon Schaech stars as Teddy, an American bird smuggler who goes to Australia to retrieve a flock of escaped birds. While there he has a wild liaison with a quirky, sexually ravenous girl (Angie, played by Susie Porter) who after a brief courtship knocks him unconcious and kidnaps him. When he awakes he finds himself "married" to her (not legally) and stranded in Woop Woop, a desolate, dilapidated town hidden within a crater-like rock formation in Aboriginal territory. The residents are people who lived there at an asbestos mining camp before the land was handed over to the Aborigines; following a tragedy in 1979, Woop Woop was abandoned and literally "erased" from the Australian map. Not content with the deal given to them by the mining company (residence in Fremantle), they opted to return to their old lives in Woop Woop. At first they repopulated themselves incestuously, which caused wide mental instability. A rule was then enacted ("Rule #3") which bans residents from sleeping with their relatives. Since then, outsiders like Teddy have been occasionally kidnapped to keep Woop Woop populated.

Their only export is dog food made from slaughtered kangaroos. The town is run by Angie's father, Daddio (Rod Taylor), in a fascist manner that he disguises as communal (he and the other town elders keep the best luxuries for themselves in secret while doling out only the usual canned pineapple and sub-par tobacco to the others). The only entertainment available to the residents are old Rodgers & Hammerstein movies and soundtracks, the latter of which they play constantly. These are presumably left over from the town's last official contact with the civilized world.

After witnessing another kidnappee (the local hairdresser) get shot to death by Daddio during an attempted escape, Teddy soon realizes he will be trapped in Woop Woop for life unless he finds a way out for himself. He repairs his VW van which has been vandalized by the locals, only to have it vandalized again by Daddio. He befriends a couple of locals, including the scruffy, affable Duffy, and Krystal, Angie's sister, who help him to confront Daddio's iron-fisted reign, and to arrange an escape plan.

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