Broken Hill Hollywood Movie
Cast and Crew
Starring:Alexa Vega, Luke Arnold, Timothy Hutton
Theatrical Release Date:09/11/2009
Run Time:102 min.
Distributor(s):Audience Alliance
Director(s):Dagen Merrill
Genre(s):Drama, Family
Language:English
Reviews :
Tommy McAlpine (Luke Arnold) was born and raised on a rocky, drought-ridden sheep station in the middle of the Australian Outback. His now deceased mother has instilled in him a passion for music and to experience life on a broader stage. His father, George McAlpine (Timothy Hutton), is a lonely, crusty, third generation farmer who believes Tommy’s only chance for a future is on the family farm, making a living from the dry Outback land.
Tommy has a genuine gift for music and aspires to attend the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Torn between the legacy of his mother and a desire to appease his father Tommy works on the farm and even plays Australian Rules Football, but in his heart he wants to be a great musician. The local town is small and the world is about sheep and football. No one can carry a tune and Tommy’s gift remains unseen.
When Tommy’s unrequited crush on a visiting American high school classmate named Kat Rogers (Alexa Vega) gets him into hot water with the police, Tommy discovers a new opportunity. He chooses to do community service at the nearby jail in order to use the prisoners to perform his music. That choice creates a new set of challenges for Tommy and his father.
But the stakes for Tommy are raised even further when his music teacher and mentor, an Aboriginal musical genius named Pindari, lands him an audition for the elite music conservatorium in far off Sydney. Afraid that he won’t get approval from the prison warden, Tommy manipulates events to bring his choir to a prison band competition where a talent scout from the conservatorium can see the performance.
During the prison band performance in Broken Hill, an isolated mining city in far western New South Wales, Tommy unwittingly helps his star prison musician escape, ruining his chances at a conservatorium scholarship in Sydney, and Tommy’s own chance to escape seems even more remote.
Despite the odds, Tommy finds a way to bring his music to life and that becomes the key to a second chance for all of them. ‘Broken Hill’ is ‘Billy Elliot’ meets ‘August Rush’ set in the Outback. It is the story of an artist who learns to reach for the stars.
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