Crackerjack is a 2002 Australian comedy film starring Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, Samuel Johnson, Lois Ramsey, Bob Hornery, Judith Lucy, John Clarke and Denis Moore.
For years he has been a member at the Cityside Lawn Bowls Club (in fact he has three memberships), but he has never played a single game, having only joined to get the free parking spaces from which he makes extra cash by renting them to his workmates.
Dave and two of the ladies, Gwen and Eileen, approach the State Governor and convince her to overturn a lifetime ban on Cliff Carew, the club's best player, and the latter takes Len's place.
The pot growing greenkeeper is sacked and Jack takes over his job and is comforted by Len who says Stan loved him like a son, he and Nancy begin a new life with their friends at the club.
"[3] David Stratton, writing in Variety, was less enthusiastic, referring to Crackerjack as "a middling comedy which fails to live up to its explosive title ... A pleasant enough screen personality, Molloy is, however, barely able to carry such a modest project ... Stronger support comes from a fine ensemble of vets, especially saucy octogenarian Esme Melville ... and John Flaus as the club's most enigmatic member.
"[4] When Crackerjack was first screened on free-to-air television, Network Ten ran station promotions over the film's end credits, obscuring most of the postscript narration by the character Jack.
[8] Crackerjack was the highest-grossing Australian film of the year and received two AFI Award nominations, for direction (Paul Moloney) and the screenplay (by Mick and brother Richard Molloy).