Knock Knock

2014, 90 minutes

Some bailiff's give their job a bad name. This one gives the entire human race a bad name.

Mike Dunleavy is a bailiff. And an idiot. In tough economic times, the debt recovery industry is booming. But Mike's arrogance and ineptitude mean he's not seeing any of the riches. He works for a ruthless loan shark, Carlton Rhodes, who moonlights as a vicar. Carlton is squeezing Mike to chase a jumped-up £250,000 debt owed by Carlton's brother, Rocky, a sex shop-running sociopath. Every employee Carlton has sent after Rocky has come back maimed and ruined. And they were all much better bailiffs than Dunleavy. His spirits aren't lifted by the new apprentice Carlton saddles him with -- a spotty teenager called Justin who is only there so the Job Centre doesn't cut off his benefits. Life at home is no better. Mike was dumped by long-term girlfriend Shell after running up £30,000 debt himself paying for her cosmetic surgeries, to help her fulfill her dream of being a model. Not just any model, a catalogue model. An ambition she has held since the age of fourteen, when she heard boys at school saying how much they enjoyed wanking over the evening wear section. Mike claims not to care for Shell, but hangs around her and her new boyfriend JC like a bad smell. JC, an overbearing intellectual, wins every war of words... But Dunleavy is oblivious to this as he only understands about 16% of what JC actually says. Mike's real hope is that his rock band takes off, but bandmate Brendan's commitment is very much in doubt. Mike Dunleavy's options are fading fast. He has to draw upon his alleged Samurai training, self-professed Viking warrior spirit and highly-questionable rock-and-roll soul to overcome the obstacles before him and prove himself better than the useless knob everyone else thinks he is.

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