Work Out The Llama
Format: Feature Film (90 mins)
Genre: Comedy / Heist / Road Movie
Setting: Rural Victoria, with a journey across farmland and small towns
Tone: Offbeat, irreverent, buddy-movie energy
Logline: Rudiger and Dalrymple are stuck driving tractors on their parents’ farm until they hatch a wild plan to rob the First National Ouyen Agricultural Bank — with the help of a llama and a lot of bad ideas.
Synopsis
Rudiger and Dalrymple are stuck. Stuck on the family farm. Stuck in the same paddocks they rode BMXs through in the ’90s. Stuck in a town where the pub closes early and ambition is something you hide. But when the First National Ouyen Agricultural Bank freezes their parents’ mortgage, they decide enough is enough.
Their plan? Rob the bank. Their motivation? Questionable. Their method? Even worse. Step one: acquire a llama. Step two: stage a distraction involving a minor fire. Step three: don’t tell Mum.
What begins as a badly planned heist becomes a wildly unpredictable odyssey across the Mallee, involving a grumpy newsagent, a CWA chapter with military-grade surveillance, a town mayor with a weed empire, and a teenage goth cousin who insists on live-streaming the whole thing.
As the boys barrel toward disaster — with a stolen ute, a high-speed tractor chase, and the llama rapidly becoming the brains of the operation — they must face their real problem: they’ve grown up believing they’re useless. And this might be the only stupid, beautiful thing that proves otherwise.
Work Out The Llama is a raucous rural caper about loyalty, delusion, and how far you’ll go to feel like you matter.
Concept
Work Out The Llama is a 90-minute feature film — part buddy comedy, part small-town satire, part folk-absurdist romp. It sits in the tonal world of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Castle — a proudly Australian misadventure that’s both heartwarming and hilariously dumb in the smartest way.
Set against the dry landscapes of Victoria’s northwest, the film pairs cinematic rural beauty with chaotic, low-fi hijinks. It’s a celebration of dumb plans and big hearts, of regional dead ends and the weird magic that can emerge from them.
The central duo — Rudiger and Dalrymple — are loveable losers in the tradition of Trailer Park Boys and Flight of the Conchords, but with their own uniquely Aussie flair. Their journey is a coming-of-middle-age tale: a desperate attempt to reclaim purpose, masculinity, and self-worth through one increasingly unhinged act of rebellion.
At its core, Work Out The Llama is about friendship, rural pride, and the absurd lengths people go to when they feel invisible. It’s also about a llama. And sometimes, that’s enough.
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