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Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie's family, Elizabeth and her boys begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known. John moves from the role of Jamie's protector to that of a mentor, indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some of John's traits and beliefs as he spends more and more time with him and his select group of friends. The protection and guidance that John presents to Jamie is initiall
Director(s): Justin Kurzel
Production: IFC Films
  22 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
119 min
£607,110
Website
953 Views


- JOHN:
Yeah, good on ya. Hey?

JOHN:
Come here.

Come here. There you go.

Chuck it at the house.

There you go, mate.

Chuck it out.

Chuck it at the house. Go on.

[KIDS AND JOHN LAUGH]

Come here,

come here, come here.

Have a look.

Come on, come on.

[ALL CHUCKLE]

Oi! Good work.

Anyone touch my kids,

I'm going to go honey over

a f***ing bullants' nest.

JOHN:
Yeah,

and rightly so, mate.

Rightly so.

Or a hungry rat in a tube and let

them eat their f***ing dick off.

- Right.

- You know, full on.

Those f***ing dirty bastards

deserve-- [JOHN LAUGHS]

- WOMAN:
In a nutshell.

- In a nutshell.

- The system's f***ed isn't it, really?

- VERNA:
Full on.

Here's an example how

the system's f***ed, right?

And I know you can go

along with this, Nige...

because this has happened

to your boys, hasn't it?

- Yes.

- JOHN:
Now here we go.

They've got a police check, dont they?

To get into teaching at schools, right?

- MAN:
Yep, and working.

- Absolutely.

- VERNA:
And volunteering.

- A f***ing police check, right?

So Claire across the road, right?

We all know her.

She's a great girl,

she's been studying for six years,

She's been studying to be a teacher.

She goes to get a f***ing job,

she can't get a job...

because she stole a f***ing

watch when she was 18.

But Mr. F***ing Bum Puncher,

your mates, mate.

BARRY:
No, they're not my mates.

No, they're all your f***ing friends,

Barry. We know, mate.

- Yeah, I know mate -

- They can just stroll into schools.

Just strolls into school, right?

WOMAN:
Yeah,

you're a nasty character.

No, no, no f***ing worries,

no f***ing worries.

And takes my kiddie...

- to the f***ing bathroom.

- Oh, there's the keys, mate. Absolutely.

There's your f***ing keys.

The gents are just down the hall.

- Have a fiddle, on us. On us.

- WOMAN:
Have a smorgasbord, mate.

And what did the

school do about that?

NIGEL:
The school? The school

actually did absolutely nothing.

Nothing.

I honestly don't see an answer

to any of our questions.

- MAN:
And when you--

- I don't see a solution to any of it.

I'm f***in' sick to death of it,

I really am.

I've had a gutful, and sitting

around here talking about it,

it's all great, we're all venting.

That's f***ing fantastic.

But it's happening right f***in' now,

right while we're sitting here.

Some little kid's being

touched up.

WOMAN:
But how difficult--

ELIZABETH:
Can you please

go back in there with the boys?

I really don't want you here.

JOHN:
No Jamie, it's

alright, mate. You can stay.

No John, I really don't want him

a part of this, John.

No, it's... it's alright.

It's alright love. He's a big boy.

He is going to learn more in

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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