Australia is only moments away from civil war late in 1989, and they all blame it on one man-Joe Welch. He blames his mother.

Children of the Revolution is a black comedy, with Communism, spies, double agents, fanatics, one night stands... ....and Stalin doing kaoroke.

Judy Davis is Joan, a die-hard Australian marxist, waiting for the workers of the world to revolt. Her only confidante is Josef Stalin, whom she writes to constantly, and the horny Stalin (F. Murray Abraham) invites her to Moscow.

After her involvement in two (count 'em) one night stands (in the same night), she finds herself in a pickle. Stalin is dead (as they say, with a smile on....), she slept with a detested double agent, (My Man Sam as Nine) and comes home to Australia to find herself pregnant.

Nine: What we did for that man! Joan: What did you do? Nine: Oh, bit of this, bit of that. Joan: Hmm. Nine: Systematic genocide, torture, that sort of thing. Click to hear. 138 K

She marries Welch, who is only a revolutionary because he wants to get in her pants, and Joan begins to raise her own little revolutionary.

However, young Joe (Richard Roxburgh) has interesting quirks. He gets aroused by being handcuffed, and gets arrested by a pretty policewoman in tight pants-over and over. When he becomes a political leader for the Police Union, his communist mother nearly disowns him. Yet Joe (and his public) need to know-who is his father?

Welch (Geoffrey Rush) raised him, Nine thinks Joe is his son, and Joan herself had always believed it to be Stalin himself.

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