Crackerjacks is a story about Jack Simpson, a wise cracking slacker who joined the bowling club for the free parking. The bowling club's membership is dwindling because of the members increasing ages and, therefore, have financial difficulties. One of the members can no longer bowl on the team, so Jack gets a call telling him he has to bowl or give up his membership. Jack becomes very good at lawn bowling. He also gets drafted for other club related activities. The members are a unique group of characters and grudgingly accept Jack as a member.Of course, there is a character that is trying to take over the club for his own agenda. The guy, 'Pokies King' Bernie Fowler, wants to put slot machines in "to make money for the club", but the money will really just go into his pocket. In order for the club to keep its charter and stay open without the slots, the bowling team needs to win the tournament. There are many funny moments in this film. They have a costume party to raise money. They have a bake sale and one of the ladies coincidentally uses some marijuana that 'somebody' (the grounds keeper) was storing in the refrigerator in her cookies. Everybody that eats them gets high and acts accordingly. Bernie finds out about the incident and calls the cops. The president of the club gets arrested for the drugs. Jack helps figure out that it was the grounds keeper and gets the president out of jail.
Over the coarse of the film, Jack looses his job and girlfriend; he also finds a new relationship with a reporter that is covering lawn bowling for her newspaper. Without revealing to much of the ending, he has a new job , new friends and girlfriend by the end. I really enjoyed this film. The eclectic characters were funny and a joy to watch. I would recommend this movie to anybody.
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