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Heading north to die? What is it about Aussie movies?

posted 8 years ago by xrobboau
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Here we have another movie about a bloke (always a man) traveling great distances across Australia's vast and amazing countryside once they reach the point in their lives when their mortality is brought home to them.

Traveling North was the first I remember and after that was Charlie and Boots.

Is there a formula?

Take and aging but well known face, throw in a plot about life's final journey and make the back drop the outback.A sure-fire winner, right?

[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 8 years ago

I haven't seen the other films you mentioned, but I thought this was a great movie.

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

[–] WorldSacred 8 years ago

Take and aging but well known face, throw in a plot about life's final journey and make the back drop the outback.A sure-fire winner, right?

It worked, didn't it?

[–] willjohn 8 years ago

Assisted Suicide was briefly legalised in the Northern Territory.