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The boys

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Record Number 783791
Title The boys [videorecording].
Edition Restored and remastered.
Publisher/Date Australia : Distributed by Madman Entertainment, ©2017.
©1998.
Pagination etc. 1 DVD-video (82 minutes + 82 minutes extras) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Contents note Catalogued from container.
Madman Entertainment : MMA9198.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Based on the original play of the same title by Gordon Graham.
Special features ; Audio commentary by director Rowan Woods ; the making of: The Boys ; documentary: The Political Arena ; short film: Tran the Man ; soundtrack by: The Necks ; stills galleries from the original stage play and feature film.
Creation Note Directed by Rowan Woods ; screenplay by Stephen Sewell ; produced by Robert Connolly and John Maynard ; music by The Necks.
Performer note David Wenham, Toni Collette, Lynette Curran, John Polson, Jeanette Cronin, Anthony Hayes, Anna Lise Phillips.
Summary Note Brett Sprague returns to his family home after twelve months in jail. Things have changed while he has been away - his brother Glenn has moved out with his girlfriend Jackie, younger brother Stevie's pregnant girlfriend Nola now lives with the family, and his mother Sandra has taken on a Maori drifter. Re-united with his brothers, Brett uses his first day back to restore order. Based on Gordon Graham's award winning stageplay, The Boys is a powerful and disturbing portrait of three brothers and the women in their lives.
Target audience note Censorship classification: MA 15+.
Language note English. [CC] English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired].
Subject - Name Graham, Gordon, -- 1949-Film adaptations
Subject Family violence -- Australia -- Drama
Ex-convicts -- Australia -- Drama
Recidivists -- Australia -- Drama
Feature films -- Australia
Motion pictures, Australian
Film adaptations
Australia -- Social conditions -- Drama
Fiction films.
Crime films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Woods, Rowan film director.
Sewell, Stephen, 1953- screenwriter.
Maynard, John, 1931- film producer.
Connolly, Robert, 1967- film producer.
Wenham, David, 1965- actor.
Collette, Toni actor.
Curran, Lynette, 1945- actor.
Polson, John, 1965- actor.
Graham, Gordon, 1949- Boys.
Corporate Author Arenafilm Pty Ltd
Australian Film Commission
Serikat Buruh Sejahtera Indonesia
Added title The boys (Motion picture : 1998)
Shelf Location DVD F BOYS
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