Any Questions for Ben?
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| Directed by | Rob Sitch |
| Produced by | Rob Sitch Santo Cilauro Tom Gleisner Michael Hirsh |
| Screenplay by | Rob Sitch Santo Cilauro Tom Gleisner |
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Josh Lawson Rachael Taylor |
| Cinematography | Stefan Duscio |
| Edited by | Stuart Morley Phil Simon |
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| Distributed by | Roadshow Films |
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114 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11 million |
| Box office | $2.8 million |
Any Questions for Ben? is a 2012 Australian comedy film created by Working Dog Productions, directed by Rob Sitch. It stars Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor, Felicity Ward, Daniel Henshall and Christian Clark. It was written by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch.
When high-flying 27-year-oldMelbourne based brand manager Ben (Josh Lawson) returns to his old high school to talk to students about careers, he reunites with other former students including international human rights lawyer Alexis (Rachael Taylor), now working with the United Nations in Yemen, and Olympic archery medallist Jim (Ed Kavalee). Ben soon realises that compared to the other speakers, no one is interested in what a brand manager does, and when questions are asked for, all are directed at the other presenters while Ben gets none. This causes Ben to begin to consider the meaning behind his current lifestyle, and commences a year-long reevaluation of his priorities, looking in all the wrong places, but ultimately involving the gradual pursuit of Alexis as a serious love-interest for the first time in his life.
The film was released on 9 February 2012. It posted a modest opening weekend at the local box office which grossed $608,731 for Roadshow on 235 screens, giving it a screen average of $2,590. By the end of the first week, the film had grossed only A$917,000. By the end of its cinema run in Australia, the film had grossed only A$1.53 million, leaving the film a box-office failure when compared to the previous two feature films produced by Working Dog, namely The Castle (1997) which earnt over $10 million and The Dish (2000) which grossed almost $18 million. Overall, the film ranked 102 on the list of most successful films at the Australian box-office in 2012.
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