What did people outside Australia think?

I'm a Brit and love this film - just watching it right now in fact


"Someone has been tampering with Hank's memories."

I'm a Brit and I thought it was even better than Spinal Tap, The Office or Borat - it's got to be the most realistic mockumentary I've ever seen. The dialogue flows so naturally, in each character's particular idiom, that none of it seems staged or prepared. What's fantastic is that it makes you care about the character and his world: it's moving, insightful, and at times laugh-out-loud funny. For the story to work it had to have been loosely scripted, but nowhere does anything feel 'unnatural', which is a remarkable thing.

I think perhaps the lack of success abroad is two-fold - firstly, it's Australian, and films outside of the US/British mould (other than the recent spate of Chinese fantasy martial arts and Japanese horror films) aren't marketed properly over here. I'd never heard of this movie until it came on TV.

Secondly, I think the subject matter (toilets) puts off some people - the trailer made it look like the movie was a comedy about toilets with a very limited appeal, which it totally wasn't. I think if people knew it was about wider issues - family, relationships, colleagues, work - and a put-upon blue-collar everyman and the crap he has to put up with (pun intended) from a society who prefers to pretend he does not exist, it would perhaps gain the audience it deserves.

Just finished watching it on Sky Movies and loved every second of it. Great script, great acting, great characters. What more does a film need?Beware the moon...........

I saw it at the Newark Delaware Film Festival (USA).

I didn't know it was a mockumentary (the festival head I think misdirected us, for which I was afterwards grateful). I spent the whole movie thinking the guy was real, and I was like, "Dude, GO HAVE A DRINK WITH THE STEWARDESS ARE YOU frickin CRAZY?!?" The father was hilarious in hindsight, but while I was watching it I really hated him. The wife was as funny as she could be. And of course the scene at the end with the BMW. The business with the wedding ring SHOULD have tipped me off, but I guess I was just so into the film that I accepted it.

A really unusual experience. The audience at the movie at the Newark FF seemed to me to be very into the film. I would think it would do well here in the USA (although Sarah Palin might not like it, and there are a lot of them here!!). I've been looking through the board and haven't seen the negative comments yet, but I'm sure they're there. Sometimes I wonder how many of the commenters have actually seen the movie they comment on. Seriously, I think there's a subset of members of this db who comment based on trailers, the website, or just some impression they have. I suspect them to be teen males.

From the UK and although it wasn't as laugh out funny as the trailer made it. I think it was better for this. The laughs were worth it when they came, and it did tend to use the comedy to break up some of the sadder moments. We ended up feeling bad for Kenny and just hoping that it all worked out for him... Such great delivery of some of the most absurd descriptions made the charecter really warm to you.

I agree with what someone else said, we were also expecting something bad to happen. Im glad they didn't go down the cringe inducing route, or the incredible bad misfortune.

I am South African -though now living in Sydney- and I avoided this movie for a long time because I thought it was just crass 'Toilet Humour'. But I kept hearing about it, so I finally rented it. I must say was pleasantly surprised by how well this is written and acted. It is really very moving -no pun intended- and the characters are really well defined. A previous poster said they have not care so much about a character in a long time, and I must agree. Kenny is a very nice guy.

Good stuff!