2007 · drama · romance
December Boys
Directed by Rod Hardy1h 45m2007
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
Our read: December Boys (2007) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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“You want a sun-soaked Australian coming-of-age story about orphan boys and first love.”
Skip it tonight — Slow sentiment and teen sexuality will lose you before the beach payoff.
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