Steve (Nick Giannopoulos) is a first-generation Greek Australian. Steve is unemployed, but manages to get by, helping out here and there. His pride and joy is his Chrysler VF Valiant Pacer. Whilst helping out a compensation-oriented neighbour, Steve has a minor car accident involving the Minister for Employment, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe (Geraldine Turner). The net result of this encounter is twofold: Steve gets to meet Celia (Lucy Bell) whom he is instantly attracted to but who initially hates him, and Steve gets outed on national television by Derryn Hinch as the worst dole-bludger in Australia.
Steve manages to turn this around to his advantage, and becomes famous as The Wog Boy, spearheading a campaign to improve the employment status of the country. In the interim, he makes variable progress with Celia.
Steve (Nick Giannopoulos) is seen driving a dark blue 1969 VF Valiant hardtop during the movie, which was allegedly given to him by his father.
During the film, it is said that the car's original engine was a 245-cubic-inch (4.0 L) 6-cylinder hemi, which was later replaced with an 8-cylinder engine.
The Australian Chrysler Valiant range of cars were often and sometimes still referred to as "Wog Chariots" or "The Greek Mercedes."
The track "Get Tzatziki With It" was also in the film's promotional campaign, and is played in the actual movie itself. It was written by John Von Ahlen, Jaime Jimenez and Nick Giannopoulos[6] and recorded at Subterrane Recording Studio.
The Wog Boy premiered in Melbourne on 9 February 2000. It previewed on 180 screens over the weekend of 18 to 20 February and grossed $1.2 million in three days, the biggest ever preview grosses for an Australian film and enough to have ranked third at the Australian box office for the week.[7] It officially opened on 200 screens on 24 February and grossed $10 million in its first five weeks.[8] It went on to gross $11,449,799 at the box office in Australia, becoming the tenth highest-grossing Australian film of all time.[9][8]
In June 2021, a third film Wog Boys Forever was released in October 2022.
References
↑Speed, Lesley (2005). In Life as a pizza: The comic traditions of wogsploitation films. Australian Teachers of Media - see also Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine Vol. 146/147, no. (2005), p. 136-144
↑Casting light on the dark side of Wog Boy.(Local) The Australian (National, Australia), 2000 March 13, p. 006
