A Man's Gotta Do

With all the sit-com complications surrounding the members of a dysfunctional but loving family, Australian writer/producer/director Chris Kennedy's amusing comedy feels more like a 90-minute pilot for a TV series than a feature film. The head of the Burke family seat — a brand-new model home just off a four-lane motorway in sunny New South Wales — is the growling but lovable Eddy Burke (John Howard), husband of restless Yvonne (LOVE SERENADE's Rebecca Frith) and father of pretty, 22-year-old Chantelle (Alyssa McClelland), who's about to escape from under Eddy's thumb by marrying Rudi (Manuel Terron), the love of her life. Officially a fisherman with his own trawler,...