BMX Bandits (released as Short Wave in the United States[2]) is a 1983 Australian crime comedy action film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman.

The three go out in Goose's dad's runabout on the harbour searching for cockles to sell to fix their own crashed bikes, as well as getting Judy her own and stumble onto and steal a box of police-band walkie-talkies that the bank robbers were hoping to use to monitor on police traffic.

The project passed to producer Tom Broadbridge who hired Hagg's frequent collaborator Patrick Edgeworth to rewrite the script and make it about teenagers.

"[4] The movie was shot over 41 days, a longer than normal shoot because of the labour restrictions caused by the fact many of the cast were under 16.

Trenchard-Smith: I wanted to capture the spirit of the Ealing comedies and British films of the '50s and '60s that were clearly aimed at children and delivered action and fun in a largely cartoonish way.

If you look at the basic premise of the plot, the crooks clearly want to or intend to kill the children at some point, so how do you disguise that and make that palatable to an audience of kids and parents?

[5] Director Trenchard-Smith states during the Blu-ray commentary that BMX Bandits grossed more than $1 million in its first 6 weeks and was the 5th-highest-grossing film in England for the year of its release.

A bonus disc includes a photo gallery, press clippings, Nicole Kidman discussing the film on Young Talent Time, and a featurette titled BMX Buddies with Brian Trenchard-Smith, Tom Broadbridge, Patrick Edgeworth, Russell Hagg, and James Lugton.

The show That Mitchell and Webb Look parodied the film in the recurrent adventures titled "Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit".