December Boys (2007)

Warner Independent
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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Oct 5, 2007
Running Time: 103 mins.
Country Of Origin: Australia
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A story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a catholic convent in outback Australia. For years the boys watch the younger orphaned kids leave with their newly adopted parents, and have finally come to the realization their time may never come. The Reverend Mother gives the boys something to look forward to by sending them to visit the seaside for the first time. Their long awaited vacation doesn't turn out the way they planned until they meet Teresa and Fearless, a young autocratic couple who would make the perfect parents. Now as grown men, they reflect back on the '60s when, as boys, they spent their first tumultuous summer by the sea, as they sabotaged each other's efforts to be the 'chosen one'--only to discover that the real meaning behind what it is to be a family.
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This poignant coming-of-age story is a beautifully realized exploration of the nature of family, set against the gorgeous backdrop of some of Australia's wildest landscapes.

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Four tweener boysMaps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Spit (James Fraser), and Spark (Christian Byers)--have grown up together in a dusty Catholic orphanage deep in Australia's outback during the 1970's. The boys are fast friends, partly because they are the home's December Boys, the only four born in that… Continued