Life in the town of Coollawarra is disrupted when former football hero and local larrikin Eddie 'Mullet' Maloney returns to face everything that he walked out on three years ago. At first, things seem to be just as Mullet left them. His dad Col is still coaching the local footy team and 'happily' not speaking to his mum, Gwen, who is just as 'happy'. His older brother Pete is still the incorruptible local cop, Kay still serves beers down the pub, looking for love in all the wrong places, trying to extinguish that torch she still carries for Mullet. However Mullet quickly discovers that all is not the same and people have moved on. Especially his old flame, Tully, the feisty young woman he walked out on three years ago and who is now married. Slowly, trouble starts to mount. Mullet turns on his mates, estranges his parents and takes the daring step of calling on Tully, placing doubt in her mind about her marriage.
It's universal story of the search for a place to belong, and is told with a good dollop of humour. Except that the characters are based on stereotypes. The male is portrayed as a footy-loving beer-can-guzzling know-it-all Ocker and the female is some backwards curlers-in-her-air "pet/loving" baby-talking loser. Many of the jokes do not play that well, but there is a decent amount of charm that tends to keep the movie moving along. It has some charm, an Australian sense of humour and a bit of singing, and all in all, it's not too bad.