Project Detail

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.

Details

Year
2014
Type of project
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

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Production Status

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