Cooked

Available Online

5 Mar

Written By Maddison Tickner

Drama, Comedy, Coming of Age

Trailer

Written & Directed by

Cameron Utiger - No One Will Hear This (2024), The Seeds of Supervention (2025)

Starring

Zane Menegazzo - NCIS: Sydney (2025), A.R.C.A (2024), Broken Pieces (2025)

Baylee Arndt - Barista (2025), Single Out (2022), Standing Up for Sunny (2019)

Jarrod Gildea - Love and Lemon Trees (2026), Chasing Lemons (2023), Pinch (2020)

Sam Folden - Home and Away (2022-2023), Ruby’s Choice (2022)

Arielle Cartwright - Every Year After (2026), Beauty from Pain (2025), White Blood (2023)

All Cast & Crew

Logline

After finishing high school, Ethan and his best mates commemorate their final night out together. As the night unfolds, the boy's friendship is tested as inevitably, nothing goes to plan.

Year of Release

2025

Run Time

78m

Country of Origin

Australia

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Coming of Age

Classification

MA15+

Consumer Advice

Strong coarse language, drug use and drug references

Director’s Statement

After watching the film Superbad when I was younger I was inspired by writers Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg who’s personal experiences much of the film was based on. Inspired, I began to jot down all the funny stories and experiences of my best mates growing up in Newcastle. I began writing the film when I was 19 and finished when I was 20. Pre-Production began when I was 21 and principal photography was finished when I was 22. I feel like, in an Australian context, there aren’t a lot of coming of age stories set from 2010 onwards. Most, including ‘Puberty Blues’ and ‘Breathe’, are set in the 60s, 70s and 80s. With that in mind I thought it was time to build on these stories and create a film. With a notebook full of nostalgia, I thought it was time to flesh out my experiences and create a story. I felt like a high schooler’s perspective in a modern Australian context was needed. The Film Cooked is inspired by the events captured across my adolescence and is a story I believe most young Australians will resonate with.

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