LAST CAB TO DARWIN

'LAST CAB TO DARWIN' TRAILER

While all the cast are excellent, it’s Caton who doesn’t just remind us that he’s more than the dad from ‘The Castle’ or the bloke from the blinds ads, but slaps us upside the head with it. Under director Jeremy Sims’ guidance, the 72-year-old Australian film veteran uses his infinitely expressive features to take us on an emotional journey. Rex has never left Broken Hill before his epic drive to Darwin. He’s an intensely private man, who keeps his feelings to himself, but this drive opens him up to a whole other world that makes the most important journey the one that transforms him internally. Caton delivers all of this, and it’s so natural that he seems to do it effortlessly.

Jacki Weaver is Doctor Farmer, the euthanasia campaigner Rex volunteers for. Weaver is a fantastic actress, and here she takes a back seat to Caton and the younger actors. Those younger actors are two to watch out for, being Mark Coles Smith as Tilly, a young Aboriginal man whose life is in the rough, and Emma Hamilton as Julie, the British nurse who volunteers to take care of Rex. Worth a special mention is Ningali Lawford-Wolf (‘Bran Nue Dae’) as Polly, the lover Rex left behind. She is just brilliant, as are the support cast of Rex’s mates in Broken Hill. Really, you have to see this film to believe the quality of the acting.

The problem with great movies is that it’s really hard to write a review about them. All I need to say is that this is the sort of film we Australians can be proud of. I often talk about whether a film is worth the moolah it costs to get to the cinema these days, and this is one film where I can honestly say, yes, this is worth it. See it, because it just might change you too.

But take your tissues. A box of them.

Click here to read our 5-star review of 'Last Cab To Darwin'.

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