I'll Make You Happy
Synopsis
Teenage bad-girl, Siggy ( Jodie Rimmer) has big plans. Motivated by love, greed and anger, she comes up with a plan to highjack her sleazy pimp Lou’s ( Michael Hurst) money-making scheme. I’ll Make You Happy is a comedy heist in which Siggy inspires her friends to break out of their mundane lives.
With an unlikely team including agrophobic Lester ( Carl Bland), mild-mannered Drew ( Ian Hughes), dominatrix Fran ( Sandy Ireland) and sex workers Mickie ( Rena Owen) and Mel ( Jennifer Ward-Lealand), she pulls off a heist involving decoy cops, sexual distractions, misleading code words and narrow escapes.
The adventure brings out the best in everyone, especially Siggy and Lester, who reach a new understanding and discover a future.
Written by sisters Anne and Athina Tsoulis, I'll Make You Happy' s vibrant story neatly balances the hilarity of the solution with the tragedy of the problem. Centred around a stylised version of Auckland's red-light district, it offers a glimpse of street life reality lightened by the warmth of the characters and the humour of the story.
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