The Castle

A freak show cloaked in the mantle of a crowd-pleasing comedy, this Australian import plays both sides of the fence, laughing at its low-class protagonists while making like it's laughing with them. Oh, that wacky Kerrigan clan! Dad Darryl (Michael Caton) adores his wife and children and putters endlessly around their unprepossessing house. Others might call it an eyesore (and it's smack dab at the end of an airport runway to boot), but no matter — it's home. Mum Sal (Anne Tenney) is an arts and crafts fanatic, son Steve (Anthony Simcoe) dabbles in buying and selling junk, and daughter Tracy (Sophie Lee), well, she brought honor to the Kerrigans by graduating ...