Dags (film)
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| Dags | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Murray Fahey |
| Written by | Murray Fahey |
| Produced by | Murray Fahey |
| Edited by | Brian Kavanagh |
Release date |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $26,000[1] |
| Box office | A$17,171 (Australia)[2] |
Dags is a 1998 Australian comedy film centring on the adventures of a group of friends, directed, produced and written by Murray Fahey.
It is not related to the Deb Oswald play Dags.[1]
A series of incidents involving a group of friends
Cast
- Tanya Bulmer as Cheryl
- David Callan as Trevor
- Paula Arundell as Tracy
- Angus Sampson as Prozac
- Gabby Millgate as Muriel Video Addict
- Tom Gleeson as Wedding Dag
- Julia Zemiro as Additional Voice
Production
Fahey wrote the film in three weeks, inspired by a desire to use talened actors he knew who were out of work:
I used all the places where I live and go shopping every day, and I wrestled with the changes that Australian society is going through. There is the older, traditional Australian dag and the newer, younger generation of dags. Then there are the ethnic dags. . . it’s a nice mixture of Aboriginal and Anglo dags . . .the older ones have stiffer barriers, but I wanted the kids to reveal themselves. They are all uniquely daggy and that’s the common ground. They don’t talk about their different cultures or their different ethnicity – they’re focusing on the footy or the car repairs.[3]
Fahey financed the film on credit cards and mortgaging his mother's house.[4]
It was shot in nine and a half days using a house that acted as four locations in one.[5] It movie was shot between Christmas and New Year. "This was the best time because I could get all the crew I needed and the cast were free," said Fahey.[3]
