Content

The Full English is a British kitchen sink realism meeting an Asian ghost story – a darkly comic, restrained chamber piece set within the contained world of a café and its kitchen. The film is a two-hander between two men from different backgrounds, each navigating a quiet existential crisis in a small English town.

When retired restaurant and takeaway owner Rick Shaw returns to his former premises to help the new owner, Big John – who, in the midst of a midlife crisis, has broken down in his kitchen – memories of his past return like ghosts to haunt him.

Questions of luck, fortune, and timing in life are brought to the fore as Big John compares Rick’s prior success running a Chinese restaurant and takeaway with his own disastrous attempt to run a breakfast café. What he fails to see is the ultimate cost of that success: the loss of Rick’s wife, who worked alongside him for decades. Now Rick, like Big John, is also questioning his own life and the decisions that shaped his journey.

Dates

September / October 2026 TBC

Roles

Roles Details

Title

Big John

Content

Lead. Male.
Male, White British, early to mid-40s. A former taxi driver who traded in his cab for a griddle to chase his dream of running a traditional English breakfast café. He takes over Rick’s former restaurant, transforming “Rickshaw Boy” into “The Full English,” but soon discovers the harsh realities of the food business and finds himself drowning in debt, rent pressure, and rising food costs. Big John is a man in crisis: prone to panic and dark humour, caught between bravado and burnout, and deeply afraid of failure. In his desperation, he turns to Rick as a last resort, hoping he can pull him and the café back from the brink.
Must be able to speak fluent English, with a regional West Country accent preferred.

Salary

Rate: £150 / day Total Pay: £600 (est. 4 days of work)

Ethnicities

White

Gender

Male Only

Age

35 - 45