Ten Empty

Ten Empty is a 2008 Australian film directed by Anthony Hayes and starring Brendan Cowell, Geoff Morrell, Lucy Bell, and Jack Thompson.[4]

Ten Empty
Film poster
Directed byAnthony Hayes
Written byBrendan Cowell
Anthony Hayes
StarringBrendan Cowell
Geoff Morrell
Lucy Bell
Jack Thompson
Release date
  • June 2008 (2008-06) (Sydney)[1]
  • July 3, 2008 (2008-07-03) (Australia)[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeA$49,015 (Australia)[3]

The film premiered at the 2008 Sydney Film Festival.[1]

Production

The film was written by Anthony Hayes and Brendan Cowell, who were good friends. Hayes said they were interested in exploring Australian masculinity:

After The Castle there was a string of comedies trying to replicate that success with cardboard cut-out characters, which really annoyed me. That's what we were working against in Ten Empty. That surface wit. Men cracking jokes instead of dealing with their emotions. What happens when you run out of jokes? The people I grew up with kept things to themselves, but they'd open up too. The average Aussie bloke is not just a beer-swilling idiot, and we wanted to show that.[5]

The film was shot in Adelaide.

References
  1. "RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 86 - running on empty". www.realtimearts.net. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  2. "Ten Empty". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  3. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria accessed 13 November 2012
  4. Sandra Hall, "Ten Empty", Sydney Morning Herald, 4 July 2008 accessed 16 November 2012
  5. "Ten Empty - Interview with Brendan Cowell & Anthony Hayes", Time Out, 9 July 2008 accessed 22 December 2012


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