The Castle

In this small Australian comedy, Michael Caton stars as Darryl Kerrigan, a contented, mildly eccentric family man with an easy laugh and a quick compliment for his wife's cooking. Darryl, his wife, and his four children live in domestic bliss in a ramshackle yet proud domicile neighboring the ...more

The Castle was lumped in with such late '90s comedic imports as The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine, maybe because they all featured accented blokes challenging the government along a path dotted by absurdities. But the debut feature for Aussie director Rob Sitch is much rougher around the edges and simpler in purpose, not to mention more obscure. It's also aware of its modest scale in a way that his follow-up (The Dish) sometimes isn't. Sitch bestows the Kerrigan clan with a simple decency ...more