The Year My Voice Broke

The Year My Voice Broke is a 1987 coming of age drama film written and directed by John Duigan and starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, and Ben Mendelsohn.

In the 1960s, Danny Noah Taylor, a thin, socially awkward adolescent, falls in love with his best friend Freya Loene Carmen in rural New South Wales, Australia. Unfortunately, she is attracted to Trevor Ben Mendelsohn, a high school rugby star, larrikin and petty criminal who helps Danny with the school bullies. Shortly after sleeping with Freya at the abandoned house, Trevor steals a car for a joyride and is arrested and sent to juvenile detention it is while he is away that Freya reveals to Danny that she is pregnant. Danny offers to marry her and claim that the child is his, but Freya refuses, saying that she does not want to marry anyone. Meanwhile, intrigued by a locket left to Freya by an elderly friend of theirs who recently died engraved SEA Danny begins to investigate the towns past, and discovers a lone cross in the cemetery bearing those initials, belonging to a Sara Elizabeth Amery, who died days after Freya was born. Through inquiries with his parents, Danny learns that Sara was something of the town prostitute years ago, and that she was Freyas biological mother, who died trying to give birth by herself at the abandoned house.Meanwhile, Trevor breaks out of detention, steals another car, and severely wounds a store clerk during an armed robbery. Trevor returns to town long enough to reunite with Freya at the abandoned house, and learn that she is pregnant. The police arrive at Trevors hiding place, but Danny warns him, and Trevor is able to escape, but the police run his car off the road during the course of the pursuit, and Trevor dies the next day. Freya disappears, and later suffers a miscarriage and hypothermia until Danny finds her at the abandoned house and takes her to the hospital. Hesitantly, Danny reveals the identity of Freyas mother to her. Realising the stigma now hanging over her, Freya decides to leave on the night train for the city. At the station, Danny gives her his lifes savings to support herself and sees her off promising their

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