Ten Empty

Ten Empty is a 2008 Australian film directed by Anthony Hayes and starring Brendan Cowell, Geoff Morrell, Lucy Bell, and Jack Thompson.^[4]

Ten Empty
Film poster
Directed by	Anthony Hayes
Written by	Brendan Cowell Anthony Hayes
Starring	Brendan Cowell Geoff Morrell Lucy Bell Jack Thompson
Release dates	June 2008 (2008-06) (Sydney)[1] July 3, 2008 (2008-07-03) (Australia)[2]
Country	Australia
Language	English
Box office	A$49,015 (Australia)[3]

The film premiered at the 2008 Sydney Film Festival.^[1]

Cast

• Brendan Cowell as Shane Hackett
• Geoff Morrell as Ross
• Lucy Bell as Diane
• Jack Thompson as Bobby Thompson
• Tom Budge as Brett
• Daniel Frederiksen as Elliott

Production

The film was written by Anthony Hayes and Brendan Cowell, who were good friends. Hayes said they were interested in exploring Australian masculinity:

After The Castle there was a string of comedies trying to replicate that success with cardboard cut-out characters, which really annoyed me. That's what we were working against in Ten Empty. That surface wit. Men cracking jokes instead of dealing with their emotions. What happens when you run out of jokes? The people I grew up with kept things to themselves, but they'd open up too. The average Aussie bloke is not just a beer-swilling idiot, and we wanted to show that.^[5]

The film was shot in Adelaide.