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Charlie Boots
Credits: Directed by Dean Murphy and starring Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing and Morgan Griffin.
Details: (M), 102 mins, Australia, English
Synopsis: Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
Genres: Drama, Comedy
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Once this set-up is established the screenplay (by Murphy and Stewart Faichney) doesn't waste any more time getting the plot underway. It seems that Charlie and Boots are estranged - for reasons that are revealed in lengthy expositional dialogue scenes late in the movie. Boots wants to mend emotional fences with his Old Man and to do this he decides that together they must drive to Cape York, some 3,000km from their home in the dairy district of Victoria. I thought,[url=http://newkevindurantshoes2012.blogspot.com/][b]http://newkevindurantshoes2012.blogspot.com/[/b][/url], at this point that if the Old Man was such a curmudgeon, why didn't he just tell Boots to bugger off and go back to sitting in the dark and being miserable? The answer to such inconvenient philosophical musings is that this is a feel-good buddy road movie star vehicle built for two, and I accepted the fact that no matter what was to happen I was going to be made to feel optimistic. I braced myself.
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They take her to Tamworth, where she sings sweetly and charmingly and we never see her again. And that's typical of the movie - just when it's getting good, the interesting characters disappear and we're stuck with the two leads in a family-conflict sub-plot where Hogan and Jacobson are asked to perform embarrassing angsty scenes of long-suppressed feelings…and you're left wondering what happened to the 'good' part of 'feel-good'. Charlie and Boots looks and feels like it was made for TV. Even the scenery,[url=http://duveticaoutletcanada.halod.com/][b]duvetica down jackets men[/b][/url], flat lands,[url=http://www.duveticajacketsjp.com/][b]デュベティカダウンジャケット[/b][/url], rolling greenery and pretty country cottages looks puny.
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