Good for Nothing

In this odd couple tale set in the American west, Cohen Holloway (Until Proven Innocent, Boy) plays an outlaw who abducts an upper class Brit. Calamity ensues when the hardman fails to have his wicked way with her. After screening at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the self-funded movie won praise from critic Leonard Maltin. While Utu took the Western genre and applied it to New Zealand history, Good for Nothing mines South Island scenery for a so-called 'Pavlova Western'. Longtime Weta staffer Mike Wallis directs. The rousing score is by composer John Psathas.

Laugh out loud funny ... all the unspoken truths of the Old West — bad oral hygiene, unspeakable pain and, as the Gene Wilder of Blazing Saddles put it so succinctly, morons — are exploited for great comic effect, against a rather spectacularly ersatz Old West.

– Variety reviewer John Anderson, 7 March 2012

Key Cast & Crew

Zoe Wilson

Production Designer

Greg Daniels

Editor

John Psathas

Composer

Cohen Holloway

As: The Man

Mike Wallis

Director, Writer, Producer

Inge Rademeyer

Producer, As: Isabella Montgomery