
Eddy earns an honest living from his fish trawler but leads a double life as a "standover" man at night to keep his aspirational wife, Yvonne happy. His relationship with his feisty daughter Chantelle, whose Russian fiancé has disappeared, is at crisis point and he decides to read her diary or rather get his new sidekick, Dominic to do it. Eddy's gotta do what Eddy's gotta do to keep his eccentric family together.... (Full plot summary below)
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Eddy earns an honest living from his fish trawler but leads a double life as a "standover" man at night to keep his aspirational wife, Yvonne happy. His relationship with his feisty daughter Chantelle, whose Russian fiancé has disappeared, is at crisis point and he decides to read her diary or rather get his new sidekick, Dominic to do it. Eddy's gotta do what Eddy's gotta do to keep his eccentric family together.
Leave your thoughts about A Man's Gotta Do.
| TV GuideKen FoxFeels more like a 90-minute pilot for a TV series than a feature film. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThis amiable, off-kilter Australian comedy pits parental manipulation against adolescent pride, with generally amusing results. |
| Village VoiceMatt SingerThe only thing more inexplicable than the loathsome score is the story's determination to impregnate all its major female characters. Fuggedaboudit. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderLacks a coherent message, let alone anything very funny at which to laugh. |
| User ReviewMEC rThis movie reminds me so much of my own family in a way. An absolute crack up. |
| User ReviewPrivate UI very aussie suburbs feeling movie with some very nice insidious humour. Despite it having such a small budget, i think it worked really well, its very very funny. In fact it's 'triffic'. John Howard executes his character extremely well. |
| User ReviewJ Kcrap. john howard marginally makes this better then an episode of neighbours. To much clutter, and pointless shit in this film, such as One of the characters keeps singing the most annoying songs- who cares! why do we need to see/ hear it three timers! once was enough... lame. boring. balls. |