When his beloved daughter Chantelle's no-good fiance jilts her, Eddy is desperate to cheer her up. However, empathy is not one of part-time hitman Eddy's strongest attributes and somehow the gulf between them keeps widening. In a last-ditch effort to understand his daughter's complicated emotions, he decides to read her diary. Enlisting the help of his hapless young sidekick Dom, Eddy finally gets on Chantelle's wavelength. However, as in all the best comedies, nothing is straightforward and it's not long before things go wrong and secrets spill out with hilarious results.

A Man's Gotta Do is the fourth film that Chris Kennedy has written, directed and produced. His previous films include Doing Time for Patsy Cline, This Won't Hurt a Bit and Glass. Doing Time for Patsy Cline won four Australian Film Institute Awards from 10 nominations, five Film Critics' Circle of Australia Awards, Best Original Script at the San Diego Film Festival and the Australian Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Script.

One of Australia's foremost producers, John Winter's many credits include producing critically praised Vacant Possession, and the Sydney Film Festival opening film Doing Time for Patsy Cline. He returned to television with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's highly successful TV series SeaChange. His next feature Paperback Hero launched Hugh Jackman's film career and was followed by the Berlin Film Festival entrant My Mother Frank. John was most recently a producer on Phillip Noyce's award-winning box-office hit Rabbit-Proof Fence.