How to Make Gravy is co-written by actor-musician Meg Washington and her filmmaker husband Nick Waterman.
Christmas stories come loaded with emotional peril. Expectations of celebration, harmony and goodwill inevitably set up characters for egregious failure and ultimate redemption, which is how we get Scrooge, Dr Seuss’s Grinch, and the imploding George Bailey ofIn Australian culture, we have Joe, the narrator of Paul Kelly’s adored 1996 song, who is in the heartrending situation of writing a letter home to his family because he will be spending Christmas in prison.
Five years later that movie is about to drop on Binge as Waterman’s full-length directorial debut, and the streamer’s first local feature film production. Daniel Henshall stars as Joe, a man struggling in the wake of his mother’s death and whose anger issues land him with an 18-month sentence.) is his partner Rita, trying to hold the family together; Brenton Thwaites is Dan, the younger ‘Funcle’ who has become a rusted-on presence in the household; and Hugo Weaving is Joe’s prison mentor Noel.
“Every element of the film is extracted from the song,” Washington says. “Even the phrasing of the lyrics informed choices we made.“Paul sings ‘Give my love to Angus’, and he pauses, and he says, ‘And to Frank and Dolly’. So that’s how we ended up with Angus being Joe’s nine-year-old son and Frank and Dolly being his older twin sisters. The song’s been our bible from the beginning.”
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