Willy Nilly

This bawdy backblocks comedy follows the efforts of two middle-aged males to adjust after the death of their Mum (Dorothy McKegg). The somewhat dim brothers (played by Mark Hadlow and Sean Duffy) are lost without her cooking and advice on Judy Bailey’s attractiveness, and getting close to goats…until the hired help (Alison Bruce) arrives. The short film was the first production by Big House, a collaboration between director Mike Smith and editor John Gilbert. Invited to the revered Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 1999, it inspired a hit TV series of the same name.

Harry your dinner’s on the table…when you’ve finished!

– Mum (Dorothy McKegg) interrupts Harry (Mark Hadlow) in the middle of a long-drop porn reading session

Key Cast & Crew

Mike Smith

Writer, Director, Composer

Sean Duffy

As: Eric

Mark Hadlow

As: Harry

John Gilbert

Producer, Editor

Bronwyn Bradley

As: Erica

Dorothy McKegg

As: Mum