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Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall.

For years, he has applied to become a cop, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages, Paul’s daughter and sweet heart among them.

Blart becomes trapped inside, and because of his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He thus becomes the police department’s eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals on his own.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 American action comedy film starring Kevin James, Keir O’Donnell, and Jayma Mays. At the movies on March 19, the targeted tween audience will lap up James’ antics.

The genial James has an appealing everyman quality, and the movie, written by James and his “King of Queens” writing partner Nick Bakay and directed by journeyman Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care), is packed with family humour.

The story is simple and fun … Blart lives in New Jersey with his mother (Shirley Knight) and daughter (Raini Rodriguez), covering the loneliness of his existence by slathering peanut butter on his nightly slice of pie. “Peanut butter . . . it fills the cracks of the heart,” Blart says between bites.

Blart does gain a measure of fulfillment from his job at a West Orange, N.J., mall, where he scoots nimbly around on a Segway (the film gets nice mileage capturing James’ dexterity on the two-wheeler), going about his sworn duty to “detect, deter, observe and report.” That he has no real authority is an idea the filmmakers try to exploit, but the best scenario they can imagine involves Blart wrestling a heavyset woman in a lingerie store.

The movie’s main action involves Black Friday, an elaborate robbery scheme, a hostage scenario, criminals played by actual X Games athletes and a shot at redemption for our hero. There’s also a love story between Blart and a doe-eyed kiosk saleswoman (Jayma Mays), a good egg who intuits that somewhere beneath the mall cop’s doughy exterior beats the heart of a champion. And not just because he won the nacho-eating contest, either.

Similarly, underneath all the cartoonish mall mayhem and silly slapstick lies a comedy that aspires to be the sort of gentle crowd-pleaser.



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COFFEE PACK ~ CLOESES 9AM, need to pick up prize

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To celebrate the first Taste of Sydney festival, we have five prize packs to give away thanks to Lavazza coffee. Each pack includes two tickets to the Taste of Sydney on Thursday 12 or Friday 13 March, a kilo of Lavazza Cafe Blend beans, perfect for the espresso machine, and 500g of ground 100% Arabica coffee. Enter by 9am on Monday, March 9 for your chance to win.

NB. Due to the size of these prize packs, winners will need to pick them up from our office located at: Level 4, 83 Kippax Street, Surry Hills




How many grams of ground Arabica coffee is included in each prize pack?

Thanks very much Sands!