Stork is a 1971 Australian comedy film directed by Tim Burstall, starring Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Graeme Blundell, Sean McEuan, and Helmut Bakaitis, based on the play The Coming of Stork by David Williamson. The films centres around Graham "Stork" Wallace (Spence), a socially awkward and loudly left-wing Monash University student who comes to share a flat with three of his fellow students after being sacked from his job at the local Holden plant, with disastrous results.
This film provides examples of the following tropes:
- The Big Guy: Stork, naturally, seeing as he's played by the two-metre tall Bruce Spence.
- Imagine Spot: While looking for a job advert in the local newspaper alongside Anna, Stork imagines himself storming the High Court of Australia while leading a workers' uprising and then being stranded in the sub-zero conditions of an Antarctic research station with no "moles" (women). Neither scenario is particularly appealing to him, so he quickly gives up on job-searching.
- Rule-Abiding Rebel: A central theme of the film is how those who think they are unconventional are really anything but. Stork and his roommates may dream of revolution, but when given the opportunity to put their ideals into practice, they start bickering and ultimately fall back on the very societal conventions they despise, most notably when Anna announces her pregnancy. Of the four leads, Anna is the only true rebel.
