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Kylie Minogue's acting career has been less than stellar, but that has not stopped government film funding bodies gushing about her latest foray into film.
Minogue will star alongside Oscar-nominated actor and Neighbours co-star Guy Pearce and Radha Mitchell in the comedy Flammable Children, which begins filming in Queensland in   October. 
The film, written and directed by Stephan Elliott, has received support from the federal government through Screen Australia and its state counterparts Screen NSW and Screen Queensland.
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The bureaucrats in charge of these publicly-funded film bodies have been effusive in their praise.
Screen NSW chief executive Courtney Gibson described the film as "a glorious romp through Australia's beachside history, being brought to life by an absolute dream team - on the screen, behind the camera and in post".
Screen Australia chief executive Graeme Mason made a similarly bold claim: "In Kylie, Guy and Radha, the team has been able to secure some of Australia's most established and iconic talents."
Mason's faith in Pearce certainly seems warranted given his success in Hollywood and star turns in the Jack Irish telemovies. He will also star alongside Rachel Griffiths in gay rights drama When We Rise about the '70s gay liberation movement in the United States.
However, Minogue's acting career, as opposed to her discography has been patchy.
She won a shelf-full of Logies in the '80sfor playing Charlene Robinson in Neighbours before her first and only major cinematic role in 1989's The Delinquents.
The film received mixed reviews although the Herald's critic Lynden Barber said she was the "best thing about this story".
"What makes it watchable is Minogue, who displays a fragility that is thoroughly charming, neatly capturing the nervousness of adolescence, particularly in an early scene where she undresses with her lover Brownie for the first time, while her development of a tough streak is surprisingly convincing," Barber wrote in 1989.
Since then, her acting has been limited to brief cameos in films such as Street Fighter, Moulin Rouge! and San Andreas, and television's The Vicar of Dibley and Galavant.
Elliott's career rests on the success of 1994's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, with several members of the production team reunited to work on Flammable Children.
But he has worked on just a few films in the past two decades after suffering a skiing accident in 2004.
Herald film critic Paul Byrnes described his 1997 film Welcome to Woop Woop as "about as subversive as a John Howard speech, but it's funnier", while the Australian Financial Review's Peter Crayford labelled it "an excessive, undisciplined work".
Elliott directed 1999's Eye of the Beholder starring Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, which was criticised by the Sun-Herald's Rob Lowing as "incoherent, sometimes skull-splittingly boring and frequently pretentious".
Elliott's screenplay for the 2008 film Easy Virtue, meanwhile, was described as "a revved-up rearrangement of the original, augmented by the kind of farce that owes more to John Cleese than Coward" by Herald reviewer Sandra Hall. 
His last directorial effort A Few Best Men was unloved by many critics such as The Age's Jim Schembri who called the film "a witless, brainless, gormless, senseless, tasteless and - worst of all - laughless comedy about a country wedding reception gone wrong".