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Storm boy

Label
Storm boy
Language
eng
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Intended audience
Rated: GPre-adolescent
Main title
Storm boy
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1976
Runtime
88
Summary
Storm boy lives with his recluse father, Tom, on the Coorong, a hundred kilometre stretch of beautiful windswept dunes where the Murray River meets the sea. Here his spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr Percival and his Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill. He knows no other world. Suddenly, there are intruders, the local teacher who wants him to attend school, a resentful wild-life ranger and duck hunters. Storm Boy is forced to choose between a life of continued isolation and the challenges of the outside world
Target audience
pre adolescent
Technique
live action
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