An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
Acting
Mark Little's hangdog charm carries every scene.
Writing
Caesar's script finds poetry in failure.
Direction
Tight 85 minutes, not a frame wasted.

Director
David Caesar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Little was fresh off Neighbours fame; this was his deliberate career swerve into 'serious' comedy.
Part of a 90s wave of Australian 'ocker' cinema revisionism — think Idiot Box and Two Hands — finding tragicomedy in working-class masculinity.