This dyspeptic, comic ode to boozy iconoclasm has been compared to TRAINSPOTTING (1995), but it's merely a buddy flick jazzed up with bad habits. The only thing Aussie ne'er-do-wells Kev (Ben Mendelsohn) and Mick (Jeremy Sims) can claim to have done with their lives is cultivate the ability to stay on the unemployment roster. Using their scant compensation for beer, these layabouts spend their days debating the robbery plots of old movies, wondering whether they could pull off a caper as resourcefully as the clown-masked bank robbers who are all over the local news, and, above all, avoiding work. Mick, the marginally more sensitive of the duo, falls for convenience s...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins