Malcolm wants Michael’s unwavering support, while the spirited Maddy - who will join the board in a year upon turning 18 - staunchly opposes the move.Īt its core and at its best, the film journeys to the 1950s, and to a coastal stretch of South Australia’s Coorong National Park. The matter at hand is the leasing of Western Australian farmland to a mining company, the subject of a passionate family dispute. Grandfather to the teenage Maddy (Morgana Davies), and director of a company he founded which is now run by his son-in-law Malcolm (Erik Thomson), he’s summoned to Adelaide for an important board vote. In world-weary mode, the Oscar-winner spearheads Storm Boy’s contemporary-set segments as Michael Kingley. Also one of the movie’s executive producers, the actor continues to make newspaper headlines due to accusations of inappropriate behaviour across his theatre career, the latest pre-Christmas wave of which will still be fresh in the minds of the movie’s local audience. With Sony releasing the film in Australia on January 17, and Good Deed Entertainment taking US rights for an expected spring North American release, Storm Boy faces a hurdle more problematic than any adjustments to the beloved coming-of-age story: the prominence of Rush among its cast. Storm Boy’s lengthy flashbacks never feel like a straightforward rehash of the initial film, which has long been an Australian primary school mainstay When director Shawn Seet and screenwriter Justin Monjo insert modern context to the main narrative, however, the Jai Courtney and Geoffrey Rush-starring family-friendly drama becomes less effective. While a new version might not strictly be necessary, this film hits all of the earnestly heartfelt beats when it flies close to the crux of its Australian Film Institute Award-winning 1976 predecessor. The tale of a boy and his pelican best friend remains as tender and touching as ever in Storm Boy, the second adaptation of Colin Thiele’s Australian children’s book of the same name.
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