I think they were hoping for something like The Castle but it's not very funny. Jason Donovan is good value as a dad married to Helen Dallimore who moves into a house with a backyard. They think there's money in the backyard and dig it up.
The shenanigans are not interesting, there's no jokes, a quite spectacular sequence at the end when the rain comes pouring in. There's a lot of comic caricatures especially ethnics. The film strives for a deeper meaning it can't convey and some roles seem undercast eg Gary Day in a part that needed someone more iconic. Jason Donovan has an easy charm and the film's heart is in the right place. It's not very good.
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