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The Castle is a 1997 Australian comedy film directed by Rob Sitch. It starred Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Sophie Lee, Eric Bana and Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. The screenwriting team comprised Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Jane Kennedy of Working Dog Productions.
The Castle was filmed in 11 days on a budget of approximately A$19,000. The film gained widespread acclaim in Australia and New Zealand, but was not widely distributed globally. It grossed A$10,326,428 at the box office in Australia and was Eric Bana's first film.
The blue collar Kerrigan home is filled with love as well as pride in their modest lifestyle, but their happiness is threatened when developers attempt the compulsory acquisition of their house to expand the neighbouring Melbourne Airport.
The Kerrigan house is built in a largely undeveloped housing tract, on a toxic landfill, beneath power lines, and directly adjacent to an airport runway. Despite all this, sweet-natured family patriarch Darryl (Michael Caton) believes that he lives in the lap of luxury. Blissfully unaware of his family's lack of style or sophistication, he busies himself by driving a tow truck, racing greyhounds, and constantly adding tacky renovations to the house. The rest of the Kerrigan clan shares and supports his enthusiasm in every way.
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I walk like you used to do
With a soulstone in my shoe
Darkness ahead off the wide
Oh you can't always get life right
You can't always get life right
The blue branch stretch out against time
My blacken footprints are mine
Don't be this I invoke way on mine
It's the part on this dead lifeline
Ball is your soup who you fall
You never liked 'cause I'm old
Revive to most folk finds the bride
Well you can't always get life right
Can one what to do a lifetime
I'm coming out from your head
Collect and more claims the sound of your mind
A will a castle to share
And a boat for your bottles set high
You can't always get life right
And know my head settle on pikes
Singing merely, singing widely