Dags is a 1998 Australian comedy film centring on the adventures of a group of friends, directed, produced and written by Murray Fahey.
It is not related to the Deb Oswald play Dags.
A series of incidents involving a group of friends
Fahey wrote the film in three weeks, inspired by a desire to use talened actors he knew who were out of work: <blockquote>I used all the places where I live and go shopping every day, and I wrestled with the changes that Australian society is going through. There is the older, traditional Australian dag and the newer, younger generation of dags. Then there are the ethnic dags. . . itâÂÂs a nice mixture of Aboriginal and Anglo dags . . .the older ones have stiffer barriers, but I wanted the kids to reveal themselves. They are all uniquely daggy and thatâÂÂs the common ground. They donâÂÂt talk about their different cultures or their different ethnicity â theyâÂÂre focusing on the footy or the car repairs.</blockquote> Fahey financed the film on credit cards and mortgaging his mother's house.
It was shot in nine and a half days using a house that acted as four locations in one. It movie was shot between Christmas and New Year. "This was the best time because I could get all the crew I needed and the cast were free," said Fahey.
Sandra Hall of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote the cast "generate a lot of unpretentious humour in a manic kind of way."