BMX Bandits (released as Short Wave in the United States) is a 1983 Australian action crime comedy film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman, Angelo D'Angelo and James Lugton.
Stephen Vagg of Filmink described it as "perhaps the greatest Australian kids’ film ever, a brilliantly fun and high-spirited heist tale."
In the film, a professional band of criminals is given orders to perform a payroll robbery. The law-enforcement-grade walkie-talkies which it intends to use to successfully elude the police are stolen by local teenaged kids, after which the gang is then compelled to pursue the juvenile thieves.
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Plot
After a successful Sydney bank robbery, with the robbers wearing pig masks and wielding shotguns, the man in charge, "The Boss", plans a further and larger payroll robbery for two days later, worth at least $1.5 million. He hopes that he can trust his less-than-competent gang, headed by Whitey and Moustache, to do the job properly. Anyone who fails will answer to him.
