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2008

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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

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
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2008 To Rent: DVD: 02 Feb 2009

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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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  - 06 Mar 2009 at 02:54
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  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.
  
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  eye opener
  
  It truly shows what life can be like living with somone with autism,great film would recommend anyone to watch this.
  
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  - 17 Sep 2011 at 21:50
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  Blown Away
  
  Such an incredible movie, it has everything humour, love, heartache and warmth.
  
  Thomaas is about to turn 16 and he is trying to cope with his older ... read more »
  
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  - 07 Aug 2011 at 23:46
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  not worth waching
  
  this is really not a very good film,looking at the cover you would think it's about a young guy falling in love but it's not,it's mainly about the ... read more »
  
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  - 24 Apr 2011 at 05:40
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