One summer, four orphans boys who have grown to be the closest of friends find themselves competing for the attention of the same family.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Daniel Radcliffe | ... | Maps | |
| Lee Cormie | ... | Misty | |
| Christian Byers | ... | Sparks | |
| James Fraser | ... | Spit | |
| Jack Thompson | ... | Bandy | |
| Teresa Palmer | ... | Lucy | |
| Sullivan Stapleton | ... | Fearless | |
| Victoria Hill | ... | Teresa | |
| Max Cullen | ... | Narrator / Adult Misty | |
| Kris McQuade | ... | Mrs. McAnsh | |
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Ralph Cotterill | ... | Shellback |
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Frank Gallacher | ... | Father Scully |
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Paul Blackwell | ... | Watson |
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Judi Farr | ... | Reverend Mother |
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Carmel Johnson | ... | Sister Beatrice |
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An adult nicknamed Misty is narrating a story about one summer in his life when he was an adolescent in the late 1960s. He was living in a Catholic orphanage in the Australian outback. His best mates were the "December boys" - Maps, Spark and Spit - the four of them so named because they were the boys in the orphanage born in the month of December. With a recent windfall, the orphanage decided to give each of the boys a group vacation for each of their birthdays, the December boys the first to go. Their vacation was to Lady Star Cove on the Australian coast, to stay at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. McAnsh - Bandy and "Skipper". Their relatively carefree Christmas vacation took a turn primarily from three events: learning the reason the McAnshes hosted the boys specifically at this time; Maps, the oldest in his mid-teens, exploring his sexuality with a girl named Lucy, who was also visiting Lady Star Cove for the summer; and Misty secretly learning that a young couple in the cove, Fearless... Written by Huggo
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orphan | outback | south australia | terminal illness | teenage girl |Taglines:
After that summer nothing would ever be the same. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, nudity, underage drinking and smoking | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
20 September 2007 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$4,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$15,810, 16 September 2007, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$46,474, 30 September 2007Company Credits
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Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Becker Group, Best FX (Boom Sound) See more »
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Apart from Daniel Radcliffe's role, the casting call search for the other three 'December Boys' stretched right across Australia and New Zealand. Over one thousand boys were seen before the final three successful applicants were chosen. See more »Goofs
Although the film is apparently set in the 1950s or early 1960s at most, the record Maps finds in the cave features Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky", released in 1969. Later, when Maps and Lucy listen to another record, the song played is Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Who'll Stop the Rain?", released in 1970. See more »Connections
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A great movie indeed with all that a good movie needs: love, drama, realistic characters, joy, sadness and all the other things that a human being might feel nostalgic about at a certain moment.
The orphans change the cove and cove changes them forever and, if you let it, their story might change you as well.
The emotional charge simply grows bigger and bigger from the beginning of the movie towards the end thus providing with a finale of biblical proportions (emotionally speaking).
Although in the beginning it might not seem like much this is, in my opinion, a movie that will not leave you unchanged and give you a new perspective as to what your dreams are and/or ought to be.