When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
Acting
Jimeoin's deadpan delivery carries every scene
Practical Effects
That battered kombi van deserves its own credit
Writing
Genuinely funny immigration bureaucracy jokes
Director
Ted Emery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Colin Hay of Men at Work plays Barry, essentially a washed-up version of himself running a Sydney surf shop.
This captures peak '99 backpacker Sydney before the city priced out every working-class Irish arrival.
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