THE CASTLE
(86 minutes, 1987, 15)
May 8 2023 6.30pm
The Garden Cinema
Australian snacks and lollies (sweets) sold
Director : Rob Sitch
Its 25th Anniversary outing was one of the hits of last year's London Australian Film Festival, and now the London Australian Film Society return on May 8 (MATE!) for their first annual screening of this Australian comedy classic.
When the Kerrigan’s airport-adjacent family home is threatened with compulsory acquisition, sweet-natured patriarch Darryl (Michael Caton) takes his fight all the way to the High Court. An Ealing Comedy transposed to Melbourne’s outer suburbs, this low budget marvel, from the team behind TV’s D-Generation and The Late Show became an instant cult classic, full of quotable quips and mountains of bathos.
How’s the serenity?