Sandy Gutman

Austen Tayshus performing his stand-up comedy, recorded at the Bridge Hotel in Sydne

Coming of age is difficult for any young boy, but it is a little harder for Jono Smith. His secret fetish for kitchen appliances has caused him to lose his manhood in a flight of passion. Fortunately the recent death of a porn star makes a transplant possible and with the help of his crazy friends Jono just might get laid again.

Sandy Gutman better know to Australians as Austen Tayshus embarks on a 20 year odyssey from his seminal Australiana to the recent Tsunami's and everything in-between. Totally out of control is your front row ticket to an Austen Tayshus concert in the safety of your own home. Where he just doesn't push the envelope of comedy but totally tears it up with his ranting, raving, lecturing and extorting the truth

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.

In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?

A mockumentary look at the myths and realities surrounding aliens and UFOs. A hybrid of genres on the UFO subject.

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Austen Tayshus exploded onto the entertainment scene in the mid-80's and stars here in the hilarious On The Edge, a quintessential Australian road movie in which Austen gives everyone a serve - from his gross out manager to an unsuspecting sheep! On The Edge also showcases the classic Australiana video, the country's biggest-selling single ever, shown here complete and uncensored. Extra features on this DVD include Austens Tropfest award-winning short film Intolerance and the outrageous music videos The Pope Downunder and Rapping Back To My Roots. Austen Tayshus remains on the Australia's most controversial comedians, never afraid to push the boundaries of comedy to the edge. --As found on back of DVD cover