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Director: Paul Goldman
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From Time Out Film Guide
Despite it's essentially predictable script, adapted from Phillip Gwynne's novel Deadly, Unna?, this tale of a mixed youth rugby team - half 'goonyas' (whites) and half 'nungas' (blacks) - from Prospect Bay, the Tidy Town runner-up of 1993, seduces thanks to sympathetic acting and neat observation of small town life. As the talented indigenous 'Dumbie' as his white pal 'Blackie', Carroll and Phillips are impressive, as is Harrington, the idiosyncratic trainer 'Arks' (so named because he's always arksing questions). Writer/director Goodman's take on racism is hardly subtle, but his sincerity is unalloyed. (Parents of junior rugby fans beware: exceedingly foul-mouthed.Author: WH
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- jane said...
- Posted on Sep 09 2008 11:08 Yeh its AFL mate. thanks for the synopsis though.
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- emma smith said...
- Posted on May 16 2008 00:26 australian rules, not rugby
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Cast & crew
Director: Paul Goldman
Producer: Mark Lazarus
Cast: Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Lisa Flanagan, Tom Budge, Simon Westaway, Celia Ireland, Kevin Harrington, Tony Briggs, Martin Vaughan full cast
Duration: 98 mins
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