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How Not To Work and Claim Benefits...

Synopsis

Some guys just can't handle working...
A British comedy set in the North, centered around two unemployed, and unemployable guys who find themselves in trouble after their drunken misadventures and accepting a briefcase of cash from a stranger.

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Details

Year: 2014
Type of film: Features
Running time: 95 mins
Format: HDV
Director: Patrick McConnell
Producer: Lynne Payne
Editor: Patrick McConnell, Lynne Payne
Screenwriter: Patrick McConnell
Director of Photography: Matt Rozier
Production Designer: Rick Smith
Sound: Tim Vickerstaff
Composer: Headgames, Sleaford Mods, Louis Barrabas and the Bedlam Six, Hooker, The Smears, Richard Quirk, The Mouse Outfit, The Black Apples, Rest in Beats, Fingathing, Sandfingers, The River Federation vs Churnet Groove
Principal cast: Jeremy Grainger, Patrick McConnell

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Rotten Park Road

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