Bran Nue Dae (film)


Bran Nue Dae is a 2009 Australian musical comedydrama film directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins and Reg Cribb. A feature film adaptation of the 1990 stage musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi, the film tells the story of the coming of age of an Aboriginal Australian teenager on a road trip in the late 1960s.

Father Benedictus Geoffrey Rush, head of the College, has seen Willies potential and determines to locate him through Tadpoles homeless friends, he learns that Willie is heading to Broome. The travellers drive north, stopping at a roadhouse where Willie meets the tarty Roadhouse Betty Magda Szubanski. Tadpole steals some food, a bottle of wine, and an audio tape, nearly causing them to get shot by Betty, but they manage to escape. Slippery becomes disillusioned, and leaves Willie and Tadpole behind in the middle of nowhere Tadpole curses the hippies by pointing a bone, and the van promptly breaks down.Willie then gets a ride with a passing truck carrying the members of a football team. They end up in Port Hedland where he meets flirty Roxanne Deborah Mailman, who takes him to the condom tree and offers to show him a good time, but her boyfriend turns up and a fight ensues. Willie is rescued by Tadpole, who says that all young men end up there at some point. The next morning, they are driving along a desert road when a hungover Roxanne emerges from the back seat, startling everyone. While smoking some pot, they are discovered by police and arrested, despite Annies attempts at stopping the police from arresting them. At the police station, Slippery reveals that his real name is Wolfgang Benedictus. The police then put them in a jail cell for a night. ........

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