Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

2009

84 mins

Poster for Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

Directed by Leanne Pooley
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Comedy
Documentary
Music
Award Winner

Kiwi entertainment's most irrepressible double act comes to the big screen in Leanne Pooley's documentary - offering a revealing look... More

Kiwi entertainment's most irrepressible double act comes to the big screen in Leanne Pooley's documentary - offering a revealing look into the lives of the world's only yodelling lesbian twin country-and-western singers.

Doco uses the Twins' archive of home movies and performance footage, talks in depth to the girls themselves and also their alter egos: Ken and Ken, Camp Mother and Camp Leader, and Prue and Dilly. But this a bigger story, not just charting the career of the two sisters but also the 25 years of seismic social change that accompanied it, as the country struggled to find its national identity.

Read our interview with director Leanne Pooley here.

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Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls | Ratings & Reviews

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Rotten Tomatoes® rating
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Audience score rating

"They were radicals singing about changing the world and the only person each twin was interested in entertaining was the other. Times change and that is the other fascinating thing about this film - just how much we as a nation have changed in their wake, allowing the old-time radicals to become cuddly Kiwi icons."

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Otago Daily Times

"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might just yodel."

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New Zealand Herald

"This lovely little doco will warm the cockles of any heart, and made me feel proud to call myself a Kiwi."

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Newshub

"Funny, moving, richly intelligent study of the Topps’ life and times..."

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New Zealand Listener

"Very funny, very moving… guaranteed to leave the theatre with a spring in your step and a song in your heart."

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Christchurch Press

Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls | Details

Directed by

Leanne Pooley

Cast

Jools Topp

Lynda Topp

Award winner: Audience Award winner (Documentary) at Toronto Film Festival 2009. Best Feature Film (with a budget under $1 million) at the NZ Film & TV Awards 2009.
Runtime: 84
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Music
Country of origin: New Zealand