Matt Carroll Filmography

The Club

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Thompson, Harold Hopkins, Graham Kennedy, John Howard, Frank Wilson

The Marine

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Cena, Robert Patrick, Anthony Ray Carlson, Kelly Carlson, Abigail Bianca, Anthony Ray Parker, Jerome Ehlers

Synopsis: WWE Smackdown star and self-proclaimed "Doctor of Thuganomics" John Cena makes his explosive action feature debut as John Triton, an injured U.S. Marine who returns home from duty after violating a commander's order, only to have his wife kidnapped by a ruthless criminal. Robert Patrick co-stars Read More

See No Evil

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kane, Glen Jacobs, Christina Vidal, Michael J. Pagan, Samantha Noble, Steven Vidler

Synopsis: A ragtag group of juvenile delinquents assigned the task of cleaning up an abandoned hotel find out just how deadly community service can be when they are stalked by a monstrous, four-hundred-pound maniac with a grudge in director Gregory Dark's wrestling-infused survival horror flick. It was a Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: An unexpected transformation helps a workaholic attorney learn that there's more to life than the courtroom in this remake of the 1959 Disney canine classic of the same name. Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) takes his job in the halls of justice very seriously -- so seriously in Read More

The Postcard Bandit

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Long, Brett Stiller, Matthew Le Nevez, Genevieve Lemon, Simon Burke

Synopsis: Director Tony Tilse's crime-themed docudrama The Postcard Bandit plunges viewers into the thrilling world of real-life Aussie bandit Brenden James Abbott (Tom Long) who developed an extraordinary to rob banks sans detection, with moves and techniques so suave and swift that they made it Read More

The Santa Clause 2

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Krumholtz, Eric Lloyd

Synopsis: Eight years after getting a crash course in the fine art of personifying Christmas, Tim Allen returns as Kris Kringle's replacement in this sequel to the 1994 hit The Santa Clause. While Scott Calvin (Allen) initially had mixed feelings when he became the new Santa Claus, after eight years on the Read More

Passion

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Roxburgh, Emily Woof, Claudia Karvan, Simon Burke

Synopsis: Pianist, composer and archivist Percy Grainger was publicly known for a brief concert career, several interesting contemporary classical compositions, and researching and documenting a wealth of English folk music. Privately, Grainger's life was tumultuous and unconventional, as chronicled in the Read More

Diana & Me

Crew: Producer

Actors: Toni Collette, Dominic West, Malcolm Kennard, Victoria Eagger, John Simm

Synopsis: This Australian romantic comedy, filmed prior to the death of Princess Diana, was updated with additional scenes shot several months later. Even so, certain situations originally intended as comedy now seem prophetic and painful rather than humorous. After a grim London opening sequence with a Read More

Turtle Beach

Crew: Producer

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson, Art Malik, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In this grim docu-drama an Australian photojournalist leaves her children to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she becomes friends with a Vietnamese streetwalker who has married a diplomat and together they try to do something about shocking conditions Read More

Frankie's House

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The two-part Australian miniseries Frankie's House was based on photojournalist Tim Page's autobiography Page After Page. Set during the Vietnam war, the story recounted the adventures of Page (Iain Glen) and his erstwhile photographer partner. After numerous scrapes with death, Page managed to Read More

The Fremantle Conspiracy

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based partly on fact, the Australian miniseries The Fremantle Conspiracy was set in the 1870s. Lloyd Morris starred as John O'Reilly, one of group of Irish outlaws rounded up by the authorities and transported to Australia. Eventually, O'Reilly managed to escape to America, but a strong sense of Read More

The Killing Beach

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The struggles faced by Vietnamese boat people make up the focus of this story about an Australian reporter (Greta Scacchi) assigned to cover the Malaysian arrival of Vietnamese refugees. Also known as Turtle Beach. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Paper Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Bach, Oliver Tobias, Rebecca Gilling, Peta Toppano, Pat Bishop

Synopsis: The three-part British-Australian TV production The Paper Man could be described as the miniseries equivalent of Citizen Kane. John Bach headed the huge cast as Philip Cromwell, a canny Australian entrepreneur who through "ways of his own" became his country's most powerful media mogul. Any Read More

The Blue Lightning

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Culp, Rebecca Gilling

Synopsis: Blue Lightning stars Sam Elliot as an American private eye operating in the Australian outback. Robert Culp is co-starred as a super-criminal in search of a valuable opal. Culp is forced to fight the ethically suspect Elliot for possession of the gem, while Rebecca Gilling vacillates as the Read More

The Challenge

Crew: Executive Producer

The Perfectionist

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this drama, an Australian professor, his bored wife, and their children find their lives disrupted when a male baby-sitter comes to call. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Freedom

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jon Blake, Candy Raymond, Jad Capelja, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Max Cullen

Synopsis: Ron (Jon Blake), a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, including the ability to articulate, yet he rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true. Actually, his main dream is driving Read More

The Club

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John Howard

Synopsis: Bruce Beresford directed this adaptation of David Williamson's play (Williamson also scripted) about the ever-widening gap between professional sport and its boardroom intrigues. Jack Thompson is Laurie, a once popular ball player on the Australian Rules football circuit, but now an ineffective Read More

Breaker Morant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Jack Thompson, John Waters

Synopsis: Breaker Morant is one of the most acclaimed Australian films, telling a powerful tale of wartime betrayal and injustice. Henry "Breaker" Morant (Edward Woodward) is an Englishman living in Australia at the end of the 19th century. When war breaks out in 1899 between Britain and the Boers Read More

The Plumber

Crew: Producer

Actors: Judy Morris, Robert Coleby, Ivar Kants, Candy Raymond

Synopsis: The plumber (Ivar Kants) shows up at the door of well-to-do Australian couple Robert Coleby and Judy Cowper. Though the plumber apparently hasn't been summoned, he is given unquestioned free reign in the household. He ends up staying several days, his work and personality growing weirder with each Read More

Blue Fin

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe, Elspeth Ballantyne, Liddy Clark, John Jarratt

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Colin Theile, the Australian Blue Fin stars Hardy Kruger as a taciturn tuna boat captain. Kruger's son, played by Greg Rowe, can't do anything to please his demanding dad. Hoping to prove his worth, Rowe puts his life-and sometimes other lives-on the line. A big box-office hit Read More

Money Movers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Terence Donovan, Ed Devereaux, Tony Bonner, Lucky Grills, Alan Cassell

Synopsis: In order to raise the money for his "breakthrough" film Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford dashed off the guaranteed audience pleaser Money Movers. Terence Donovan masterminds a bank-vault heist that will potentially net his gang 20 million Australian dollars. The scheme Read More

Weekend of Shadows

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Waters, Melissa Jaffer, Wyn Roberts, Graham Rouse, Graeme Blundell

Synopsis: This Australian fox-and-hounds melodrama concerns an intensive manhunt for a suspected murderer. Polish immigrant Mark Gaweda is accused of killing a rancher's wife. Heading the posse is police officer Wyn Roberts, who hopes that by catching Gaweda he'll be able to live down an earlier tragedy Read More

Storm Boy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil, Judy Dick, Tony Allison

Synopsis: Storm Boy (Greg Rowe) is a rambunctious Australian youth, living along the coastline with his freewheeling father. At the behest of an aging aborigine, Storm Boy takes care of an uncared-for nest of pelicans. As he develops a sense of responsibility, the boy's outlook on the world matures. This Read More

Sunday Too Far Away

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, Reg Lye, John Ewart, Robert Bruning

Synopsis: Director Ken Hamman's breakthrough historical drama was the first Australian film of the 1970s to gain international acclaim, paving the way for the Australian New Wave and the success of movies such as The Last Wave and Breaker Morant. Sunday Too Far Away is a story about the struggles of Read More

Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Jane Harders

Synopsis: Shirley (Jane Harders) has had a close encounter of the "third" kind, and met aliens face-to-face. She's not very happy about it, and nobody believes her anyway. However, she feels obliged to spread the word. She was the Australian equivalent of a juvenile-delinquent, a "widgie, and she and her Read More