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Charlie & Boots

2009 · 101 min

A gentle, scenic road trip that balances easy humour with quiet grief, like a long drive with a parent where old wounds slowly ease.

Directed by
Dean Murphy
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
They're on the road to somewhere
Overview
After a family tragedy, Charlie and his estranged son, Boots, try to 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 northernmost tip of Australia.

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Directed by
Dean Murphy
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • parenthood
  • healing
  • rebellion
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Dean Murphy
Written by
Dean Murphy, Stewart Faichney
Starring
Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing, Morgan Griffin, Anthony Hammer, Bec Asha, Alan Powell, Deborah Kennedy
Cinematography
Roger Lanser
Runtime
101 min
Country
Australia
Languages
English

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