A cheap and desperate travel agent tries to save his mother’s ranch in Australia by trying to pass her home off as an exclusive resort for a potentially wealthy investor. BRIEF SYNOPSIS CHAD TULLY (native Australian, 20's) is a desperate travel agent, who has been faking his way through life. He has a dream of turning his mother’s ranch in Australia into a resort. After failing to get his current boss interested in investing in his dream, he targets Reality TV star, "Rich get Richer," JERRY HAMPTON (50's), and his young girlfriend, SUSAN (25), who are planning a vacation trip. Chad pitches them a resort in Australia. They happily sign up. Chad later learns his mother, KATE TULLY, and his brother, ZAC (18), are about to lose their home in …show more content…
Chad, Zac, Justine, and Kate continue the fraud. Nick grows suspicious and runs a background check on Chad. Jerry grows fond of Kate. Nick is smitten with Justine. Chad grows jealous of Nick. Chad and Justine try to reconnect. They haven't been with each other for years. They both realize that they let their careers get in the way of true love. Old wounds open up as Justine remembers Chad leaving her behind. She doesn’t know if he has changed. Nick’s suspicions mount. He thinks Chad is trying to con Jerry into offering him a job. Chad finally makes his proposal about the resort to Jerry. Jerry comes up with an idea. He invites everyone at the pub to come to a party at the "resort." He thinks this will help the business. With the help of the town, Chad races to arrange for the party. They all agree to the charade. Susan's credit card is declined. Jerry tells Susan and everyone else that he’s broke. Chad is disappointed. Jerry learns the truth about Chad and Kate. He’s disillusioned in Kate. The auction approaches. Chad leaves with Jerry and Susan, but on the way to the airport, he changes his mind. He realizes that everything and everyone he cares about is
As the story unravels, the Kerrigans are faced with a major dilemma, in the form of a compulsory acquisition of their home. The land on which their house is built, is needed by the corporate giant Airlink to build the largest freight handling facility in Australia. And so the Kerrigans embark on an odyssey to save their “castle” from acquisition and consequent demolition.
When Lori and Jeanette are growing older, they decide they want to move to New York City to start a new life, away from their parents. Lori and Jeanette get jobs and begin to earn money. They hide their earnings from their parents in a piggy bank they named Oz. One day Jeanette tries to find Oz to put her paycheck in. Instead she says to Lori “Someone has slashed him apart with a knife and stole all the money” (Walls 228). The kids knew right away who had stolen it. It was Dad. When Lori confronted Dad with the news about Oz, he started playing dumb, acting like he had not idea what was going on. But in fact he did steal the money. This action shows that Dad is very selfish and only cares about himself.
Although released over 17 years ago, Rob Sitch’s comedy The Castle remains an incredibly popular film that portrays an ‘Aussie Battler’ family, the Kerrigans, in suburbia. Film writer Ian Craven states that the Kerrigans possess “the qualities of a simple good-heartedness family, with human decency and dignity”, all of which can be easily recognized by the audience throughout the film. The Castle takes a satirical look at Australian suburbia in order to manipulate traditional stereotypes, gender constructions, themes, identities, ideologies and cinematic techniques as a means of altering the positioning of the audience.
The loss of her husband causes Amanda to develop a dependence on her children. She wants Tom and Laura to become successful. Amanda complains that Tom does not earn enough money at the shoe factory. She wants him to attend night school so he can attain a better career.
This means that Dale and Brennan will have to get jobs and live on their own. After several job interviews, they fail at all of them and end up nowhere. Just after this as a venture quest for their company called “Prestige Worldwide” they make a music video in which they crash Robert’s boat sending him over the edge causing him and Nancy to get a divorce. Because of the divorce Dale and Brennan have a falling out and go their separate ways after they are kicked out of the house, both getting jobs and starting to “grow up”. Later Brennan gets the chance to organize the company he works for’s Catalina Wine Mixer where he oranges to get Robert and his mother back together. At the event, the company Dale works for got the contract to cater so he is at the event as well. After a heated argument with a guest, the band that is doing the entertainment for the event gets kicked out, and of all people Robert pushes Brennan and Dale to go on stage and promote their company saying, “don’t lose your
Welcome back to Current affair I’m joined by Michael Carton who plays Darryl Kerrigan in the much loved film “The Castle” the castle is a iconic Australian movie portraying a battling Australian family living in a low socioeconomic, near and expanding airport. The owner of the airport, air link wants to buy the kerryigan family home amongst others is in the way of the development. Darryl his family and friends mount a high profile high court battle in a successful attempt to protect their homes, this David Goliath battle highlights the Australian attitudes in relation to family and the family home. The concept of the family home as more then a building is reinforced by Wayne Kerrigan is longing to be back in the family home, the love
begins to gossip. Nick inevitably stoops to a lower level. This may be bad in regards to his
When Sally and John have their brief affair, which both spouses are aware of, the first problem of unfaithfulness becomes on display. As the day goes on, the tensions generated by this situation grow more acute, culminating in a physical confrontation between Sam and John.
Aileana Sutherland is a strong willed, independent young Southern California surfer, who moves to Scotland her father’s homeland. She’s drawn to her grandmother’s home on the sea cliffs outside of Durness, Scotland. After an awful break-up with her boyfriend, who she walked in on while he’s having sex with another woman. Aileana wants only to escape the painful memories of his betrayal. She needs a break from dating and decides to stay at her grandmother’s cottage while her heart heals. Aileana is sure time and distance are what she needs to get over her heartbreak. Being a writer, she is able to work anywhere she is can get an internet connection. She’s writing a piece on the oil well platforms located offshore near her grandmother’s
“The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is important to Australian culture not only for a great laugh but because it teaches people that there are many different types of Australian men and to embrace our diversity. Elliot used the AIDS epidemic as inspiration for this movie and did a very good
George contends that Caitlin only continued Marty’s initiative to bring in the latter major clients. However, Caitlin turns the move by correcting George’s perception. She attempts to convince George that the recent success of CAS in creating new accounts is also because of her own effort. She has presented the evidence within her summary that George has not read yet.
He and his friends have to follow their weird roommate Will who knows a lot about nature and survival. Heath and his friends Cricket and Dunbar work together to escape the camp.
While Dr. Susan Heitler begins to understand the concern between Richard and Judith, she documents her observation and offers her insight about what she learned about their relationship and what the issue is. Dr. Susan Heitler initiates an effective plan of action to achieve the objective of what Richard and Judith need before the session. She explains to Richard and Judith what she wants for both of them to do which is to go back to good humor. Dr. Susan Heitler continues to explain to the couple that in order for them to proceed, they must learn new skills for talking about their issues.
Jamie asks Landon to help her collect the bottles and cans she set out in a donation drive to buy presents for the orphans. Astonished by the paltry donations, Landon empties his own bank account and adds those funds to the collection without telling anyone what he has
And after years of selling of products they company they work for shutdown, leaving them jobless. Billy’s house gets foreclosed and his longtime girl friend leaves him. Nick starts working for his sister’s boyfriend at a mattress shop and Billy starts searching for jobs online which didn’t require much skills and higher education. After failing to find any attractive jobs he looks for an internship in google. Their interview with google doesn’t turn out that well but they manage themselves to get the internship through