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Black Balloon
2008
Life with an autistic brother is tough for Thomas when all he wants is to be a normal teenager. His girlfriend Jackie tries to help Thomas, but he has to take a long hard look at himself in order to accept his brother. Read more
| Starring | Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson |
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| Director | Elissa Down |
| Genres | Drama |
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Black Balloon
Life with an autistic brother is tough for Thomas when all he wants is to be a normal teenager. His girlfriend Jackie tries to help Thomas, but he has to take a long hard look at himself in order to accept his brother.
| Starring | Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward, Lloyd Allison-Young, Nathin Butler, Lisa Kowalski, Firass Dirani, Aaron Glennane, Andy Meritakis, Henry Nixon, Sally Evans, Kate Box, Ryan Clark, Sofia Fedirchuk |
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| Director | Elissa Down |
| Studio | ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Feb 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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Presumably because there are too many actual black sheep in Australia for the term to mean anything, this movie focuses... read more on Time Out
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28 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Enjoyably unexpected
This only had 23 votes at my time of renting and (obviously) no review, so I thought I'd give it a chance, and am glad that I did.
The story opens and builds the main characters at a good pace, getting a good feel of the emotions that the family have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
There are a few points where this Australian movie throws up small, sublty unexpected events, and times where it doesn't follow what you'd predict from bigger, American productions. This keeps it feeling fresh and different without being pretentious, a good quality to have in a movie, in my opinion.
I can't say I was hugely blown away by the movie but I'm certainly glad I watched, as it stirs the emotions nicely and doesn't feel like it repeats what others have done before.
All in all it's just a good film, well acted, shot and edited. -
Most recent members' review
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28 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Enjoyably unexpected
This only had 23 votes at my time of renting and (obviously) no review, so I thought I'd give it a chance, and am glad that I did.
The story opens and builds the main characters at a good pace, getting a good feel of the emotions that the family have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
There are a few points where this Australian movie throws up small, sublty unexpected events, and times where it doesn't follow what you'd predict from bigger, American productions. This keeps it feeling fresh and different without being pretentious, a good quality to have in a movie, in my opinion.
I can't say I was hugely blown away by the movie but I'm certainly glad I watched, as it stirs the emotions nicely and doesn't feel like it repeats what others have done before.
All in all it's just a good film, well acted, shot and edited. -
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Life with an autistic brother is tough for Thomas when all he wants is to be a normal teenager. His girlfriend Jackie tries to help Thomas, but he has to take a long hard look at himself in order to ... -