The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Acting
Xavier Samuel and Clarence John Ryan feel devastatingly real.
Cinematography
Endless wheat fields that suffocate instead of free.
Direction
Carstairs lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Peter Carstairs
Clarence John Ryan
Paddy Parker
Xavier Samuel
Ed Anderson
Kieran Darcy-Smith
Rick Anderson
Kelton Pell
Michael Parker
Mia Wasikowska
Amelia Hamilton
Sibylla Budd
Miss Gregory
Anton Tennet
Tom
Paul Gleeson
John Hamilton
Tara Morice
Jennifer Hamilton
Morgan Griffin
Heidi
Bob Baines
Henry
Tom E. Lewis
Uncle Harold
Steve Dodd
Aboriginal Elder #2 (as Steve 'Mullawalla' Dodd)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Mia Wasikowska's first feature film role, two years before breaking through in In Treatment.
Director Peter Carstairs based the story on his own father's experiences growing up in 1960s rural Western Australia, where the 'White Australia Policy' still shaped daily life.
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