Dubbed "...a suburban western" shortly before its completion, the line has stuck because it sums the film up well. Without strictly holding to the conventions of the western (it's very much a cross-genre piece), the film nevertheless has echoes of Leone re-imagined for the suburbs.
Max and Therese are happy together, and happy with the world. They move into a new neighbourhood, a nice family on one side and, well, "interesting" on the other side. But interesting becomes loud, and loud becomes intolerable and when the intolerable becomes violent, and the police are powerless, and the community lawyer suggests ear plugs, Max and Therese attempt to solve the problem of the neighbour from hell themselves...and end up with a corpse on their hands.
But even that's not the worst of it.
Max - Dan Wyllie
Therese - Bojana Novakovic
King - Gary Waddell
Shrek - Luke Ford
Escobar - Anthony Hayes
Otto - Roman Vaculik
Maria - Michaela Cantwell
Mirabelle - Lily Addey
Boss Maori - Lani Tupu
Man Mountain - Jack Wetere
Silent Maori - Richard Bennett
Writer/director/producer - Rolf de Heer
Producer - Nils Erik Nielsen
Executive Producers - Sue Murray, Bryce Menzies, Domenico Procacci
Associate Producer - Sarah Li
Production Manager - Julie Byrne
Casting - Faith Martin
Director of Photography - Ian Jones
Sound Designers - James Currie and Tom Heuzenroeder
Production Designer - Beverley Freeman
Film Editor - Tania Nehme
Music by Graham Tardif
Musical Director - Timothy Sexton