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December Boys
- Director: Rod Hardy
- Writer: Ronald Kinnoch; Michael Noonan; Marc Rosenberg
- Producer: Richard Becker; Hal Gaba
CGiii Comment
An overly sentimental tale ruined by some trite sentimentality and some seriously ridiculous religious imagery.
It could have been, strike that, it should have been a very good film - Rosenberg was not the man for the job
The result is a so-so, safe and uninvolving affair...suitable for rainy Sunday afternoons - and grannies.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Based on the classic Michael Noonan novel, December Boys is a story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a catholic convent in outback Australia. For years the boys watch younger kids leave with their newly adopted parents and have come to the realization their time may never come.The Reverend Mother gives the boys something to look forward to by sending them to visit the seaside for the first time. Their long awaited vacation doesn't turn out the way they planned until they meet Teresa & Fearless, a young autocratic couple that would make the perfect parents.As men, they remember back to the 1960s when, as boys, they spent their first tumultuous summer by the sea as they sabotaged each others efforts to be the chosen one only to discover the real meaning behind what it is to be a family, i.e. one of the December Boys.
Cast & Characters
Daniel Radcliffe as Maps;
Lee Cormie as Misty;
Christian Byers as Sparks;
James Fraser as Spit;
Jack Thompson as Bandy;
Teresa Palmer as Lucy;
Sullivan Stapleton as Fearless;
Victoria Hill as Teresa;
Max Cullen as Narrator / Adult Misty;
Kris McQuade as Mrs. McAnsh;
Ralph Cotterill as Shellback;
Frank Gallacher as Father Scully;
Paul Blackwell as Watson;
Judi Farr as Reverend Mother;
Carmel Johnson as Sister Beatrice