2003. A wild and wicked farce. 7m, 4w. Set in 1972, Manly Mates features the most famously controversial NSW state premier of them all, Sir Robert Askin. Bob leads a team of his more outrageous Sydney mates, movers and "business associates", including a Police Commissioner, a property-developing local Councillor, an SP bookie, a strung-out bagman, an apprentice female politician prepared to give her all, a poker machine salesman from Chicago, and, unexpectedly, Bob's sherry-drinking wife Mollie. They all collide at the beautiful Hotel Manly, in an upstairs bar overlooking the ferry wharf, where Bobıs regular summer Saturday is destined to spin out of control under the eager eye of an undercover cub reporter from 'The Manly Daily'. High energy action.