For the West family, going straight is going to mean changing the habits of a lifetime. The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and petty crime... until now. When patriarch Wolfgang West is sentenced to four years in jail, his wife Cheryl decides enough is enough; the family are cleaning up their act and going straight. Can the Wests live up to Cheryl's resolve and stay out of crime? It's not easy to be a saint when you have the DNA of a sinner. Outrageous Fortune follows one cheerfully trashy crime family's attempts to stay out of trouble: matriarch Cheryl, determined to save her brood from following in their father's fingerprints; eldest son Jethro, an ambitious lawyer-to-be with a few secrets; Jethro's twin Van (identical except in the brains department) who only wants to be like his dad; 18-year-old Pascalle, who wants to be Rachel Hunter; 15-year-old movie buff Loretta, who is blackmailing her teacher; and Grandpa Ted, who may have Alzheimer's – unless he's just playing it up to annoy people. Then there's Detective Sergeant Wayne Judd, the West family nemesis; the Hongs, a wealthy Asian who may or may not have Triad connections; Caroline Darling, Loretta's deputy principal, who has been having an affair with Jethro since he was a 15-year-old student; Munter, Van's best mate and partner in crime; and Wolf himself, who does not intend to take his wife's sudden wave of righteousness lying down. is a family comedy-drama about the wrong sort of people trying to do the right thing when the rewards for going straight are neither immediate nor bountiful. is a bold, fresh comedy-drama which is by turns bawdy, action-packed, satirical and trashy - but only ever a heartbeat away from reality. Created by James Griffin (Spin Doctors, Serial Killers) and Rachel Lang (Mercy Peak), Outrageous Fortune stars Robyn Malcolm as Cheryl West, Grant Bowler as her husband Wolf, Antony Starr as twin brothers Van and Jethro West, Siobhan Marshall as Pascalle, Antonia Prebble as Loretta and Frank Whitten as Grandpa West. Outrageous Fortune (series one) is available on DVD at all good DVD outlets. Distributed by Roadshow Entertainment.
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