*** NOMINATED for Best Original Score in Film - 2024 AACTA Awards ***
THE BIG DOG - Feature Film (2023)
A married Sydney stockbroker with a financial domination fetish has one day to save his life from ruin in this acidic Aussie comedy from writer-director Dane McCusker.
Screwball comedy and corrosive social commentary are the juicy ingredients of a very modern tale that unfolds one sunny day in upper middle-class Aussie suburbia. A few hours before his despondent son’s graduation party, alpha stockbroker Richard (Julian Garner, Underbelly: Vanishing Act) has his bank accounts drained by his “findom” mistress, Princess Paige (Asha Boswarva, Lambs of God). That’s a (usually) non-sexual dominatrix hired by wealthy men to spend their money and humiliate them. Frantic farce and raw drama follow as Richard attempts to gather a mountain of cash that will prevent his unsuspecting wife Kelly (Felicity Price, Last King of the Cross) from discovering the truth.
Written & Directed by Dane McCusker
Producers: 2C Pictures, Claudia Shepherd & Jessica Murphy
Executive Producers: Susan Schmidt, Michael Pier, Lav Bodnaruk, Jay Burnley, Mitchel Sturnhann, Markus Pfeiler
Cinematographer: Oliver Hay
Production Design: Caley Miles
Editor: Jarrod Young
Supervising Sound Editor: Jonathan Mendolicchio
Composer: Sam Weiss
Costume Designer: Tess Torrisi
Hair & Makeup: Pamela Lucarini
Casting: Danny Long
ANZ Sales & Distribution: Pivot Pictures