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2008 Certificate 15
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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 accept his brother. Read more

Starring Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson
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
Director Elissa Down
Studio ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 37 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 02 Feb 2009
Production year: 2008
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of

    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

    • Anna King, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 06 Mar 2009

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  • 28 out of 29 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    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.

      • A customer from Swindon, England
      • Posted 04 Feb 2009 09:48

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Worth a look

    At times a difficult film to watch. Thought provoking and sympathetically scripted. Try to look past the dated fashion and language. One of those films that I am glad I saw, but wonder why I am glad.

      • A customer from Bedfordshire
      • Posted 27 Feb 2009 22:02

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