Playing like a
boozy,
floozy Antipodean mash - up of TV staple The Wonder Years and Paul Mazursky's middle class mores romp Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Elliott casts the terrific Atticus Robb as his adolescent alter - ego Jeff Marsh, a sensitive teenager whose obsessions know only two forms — movies and girl - next - door Melly (Darcey Wilson), an equally ill - at - ease tweenager barely coping with the madness that unfolds daily in their cul - de-sac existence.