Kenny (2006 film)
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| Directed by | Clayton Jacobson |
| Produced by | Clayton Jacobson Rohan Timlock |
| Written by | Clayton Jacobson Shane Jacobson |
| Starring | Shane Jacobson Eve von Bibra Ronald Jacobson Ian Dryden Chris David Jesse Jacobson |
| Release date(s) | August 17, 2006 |
| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Kenny is a 2006 mockumentary starring Shane Jacobson as Kenny, a Melbourne plumber who works for plumbing company Splashdown.
The film is shot entirely on location in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Sydney and Nashville, Tennessee in the United States of America.
In Australia, there has been high acclaim for the film receiving all round excellent reviews with an average of four to four and a half stars. Due to this, the number of screens which show the movie has been increased and there is currently discussion relating to the possibility of releasing the movie overseas.
Director Clayton Jacobson describes Kenny as "the Dalai-Lama of Waste Management, eternally optimistic and always ready to put others before himself. Kenny represents the humbling nature of common decency."
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[edit] Synopsis
Kenny is a divorced, thirty-something portaloo toilet installer. He identifies himself as a plumber dogged by his father and bourgeois brother to find a more professional career. Kenny is validated by his job and refuses to change his career to placate others. Kenny's life at first seems fairly routine. By and large, he’s a meat-and-three-veg, common-as-muck kind of guy who enjoys a beer and the odd fart joke.
Then, summer arrives and 'every bastard starts having a festival'. Kenny's life is then routinely thrown into chaos. Offset by real Melbourne annual events such as The Melbourne Cup, Calder Park Street Drag Racing and the St Kilda Festival, Kenny demonstrates his star qualities. He manages to organise his toilet maintenance crew like a military sergeant, yet remains a good mate to all.
In the middle of summer, when Kenny thinks he is on top of his annual chaos, his boss asks him to attend an industry convention in Nashville, Tennessee on his behalf. For the first time, Kenny is forced out of his overalls and into a business class flight seat. His discomfort is evident, but by both breaking and fixing one of the plane's toilets, he strikes up a friendship with an air hostess.
Kenny fumbles his way through the trade expo and unfamiliar corporate world. He inadvertently schmoozes a deal to sell his company's 'corporate bathroom' to a Japanese firm, after having befriended a Japanese executive who he calls 'The Sushi Cowboy'.
Upon his return to Australia, Kenny is faced with both career and family dilemmas. His boss offers him a managerial position which would involve trading his overalls for a suit. Even though this would please his father, ex-wife and boss, Kenny decides that his current role makes him who he is, and therefore decides to stick to the camaraderie of his mates and concentrate on his personal life.
[edit] Quotes from the movie
"Mate, it's not that I'm not listening. But there's a smell in there that will outlast religion". -Kenny
"I don't know what all the fuss is about, it's 80% water... and we've got chemicals to take care of the remaining 20%". -Kenny
"It's what you come to expect... they think I'm the poo monster". -Kenny
"Dad's emotional bank account had all of two cents in it". -Kenny
"There's the urinal, and being a male, you have a prong on you that points forward, so I don't understand how they get it on their feet. They must point it down". -Kenny
"Funny part is parents look at me and say 'that's not much of a job, is it?'. And I say 'well you had kids'. 'You spent the first two years handling their shit, and you weren't getting paid for that'. They shit green, the only things that should be green are pears, apples and Martians". -Kenny
"There's another classic example of someone having a two inch arsehole and us having installed only one inch piping". -Kenny
"Better stock up the poo tickets boys, this one's gonna get a flogging today". -Kenny
"It's as silly as a bum full of smarties". -Kenny
"I've been working harder than a one arm brick layer in Baghdad". -Kenny
"As mad as a clown's cock". -Kenny
[edit] Awards and film festivals
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) 2006: Nominated: Best Film (Clayton Jacobson, Rohan Timlock), Best Direction (Clayton Jacobson), Best Original Screenplay (Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson), Best Editing (Clayton Jacobson, Sean Lander), Best Lead Actor (Shane Jacobson), Best Supporting Actor (Ronald Jacobson)
- Film Critics Circle of Australia 2006: Won: Best Actor (Shane Jacobson), Best Original Screenplay; Nominated: Best Film, Best Director
- if Awards 2006: Won: Best Feature Film, Best Script (Clayton Jacobson, Shane Jacobson), Best Sound (Craig Carter, Peter Smith), Box Office Achievement; Nominated: Best Director (Clayton Jacobsen), Best Editing (Clayton Jacobson, Sean Lander)
