How Not To Work and Claim Benefits...
Synopsis
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.
Details
- Year
- 2014
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 95 mins
- Format
- HDV
- Director
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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
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Production Status
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