Five minutes. One couch. A friendship that can't survive the truth.
Doug and Phil are mates from way back growing up on the edge of a knife in rural Australia. Doug is the local up and coming football hero, Phil is the different one, who doesn't fit in. One very drunken evening in front of the TV something happens and the code is broken and inevitable crash must happen.
Acting
Tom Budge's micro-expressions do ALL the heavy lifting.
Direction
Moore stretches five minutes into an eternity.
Editing
The cut that happens vs. the one that doesn't.
Director
David Moore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'Australian Rules' cinema — rural masculinity so repressed it combusts. Football culture as prison.
The TV destruction wasn't scripted; Budge improvised after Moore kept rolling through a technical glitch. Kept it.
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