


At this point the film flashes back to the 1950s, when pre-teen Michael Kingley (Finn Little) was a motherless boy living with his reclusive, emotionally scarred fisherman father, "Hideaway" Tom ( Jai Courtney ). Opposing the move is Downer's daughter, Maddy (Morgana Davies), a 17-year-old whose passionate concern for the environment will strike a winning chord with many young viewers.Īn unexpected delay in the voting procedure allows Kingley to spend time with granddaughter Maddy at her family's fancy seaside mansion and tell her tales from his unusual and eventful childhood.

Pushing hard for a yes is Kingley's son-in-law, Malcolm Downer (Erik Thomsen). In present-day sequences set in downtown Adelaide and coastal surroundings, Rush plays Michael Kingley, a retired businessman whose family company is about to vote on a proposal to lease land in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia to a mining company. The case involving allegations of inappropriate behavior during a theater production has attracted headlines for several months, and its outcome will doubtless influence the ticket-buying choices of some viewers. subsidiary and publisher of Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Australia's Federal Court : is scheduled to soon deliver a decision on the defamation case brought by Rush against Nationwide News, a News Ltd. How well it performs will depend at least partly on public response to controversy surrounding top-billed star Geoffrey Rush, also one of the film's executive producers. In purely cinematic terms "Storm Boy" has all the ingredients for commercial success. Adding a contemporary wrap-around story to the 1950s-set tale, and wringing well-judged changes to Henri Safran's much-loved 1976 film, this version of "Storm Boy," directed by excellent Aussie small-screen director Shawn Seet, has the emotional heft and visual splendor to win the hearts of domestic and international family audiences. Colin Thiele's 1963 children's novel about a boy and his beloved pelican receives tender and touching treatment in its second film adaptation.
