Sebastian and the Sparrow
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Director Scott Hicks Writer Scott Hicks Running time 1h 28m Screenplay Scott Hicks Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Family Duration Music director Allan Zavod Country Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1988 Cast Jeremy Angerson (Sparrow), Elizabeth Alexander (Jenny Thornbury), Robert Coleby (Peter Thornbury), Alexander Bainbridge (Sebastian), Vincent Gil (Mick - the Streetworker)Similar movies Related Scott Hicks movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A rich Australian boy (Alexander Bainbridge) helps a part-Vietnamese street urchin (Jeremy Angerson) search for his missing mother.
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Sebastian and the Sparrow is a 1988 Australian film directed by Scott Hicks. Hicks says he wanted to make the movie as a film he could watch with his teenage son:
It was a kind of junior buddy movie with the theme of two people who envied each others life. To Sebastian, Sparrow has the perfect life: nobodys on his back, he can do what he likes. It looks like glorious freedom. But to Sparrow the constraints of that life are very real. There is Sebastian with the luxury of a home, a family and a very well-to-do existence which was Nirvana to him. I love the way those thoughts could jostle together.
Cast
Many of the outdoor scenes were filmed on location in Port Adelaide, where much of Hickss acclaimed Shine was filmed.
Reception
Despite some enthusiasm by critics ("An absolute charmer. Should not be missed." - Stan James) the film was not commercially successful, which Hicks blames on poor distribution. It was released on VHS tape by the Home Cinema Goup but has not to date made it to DVD.
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Sebastian and the Sparrow WikipediaSebastian and the Sparrow IMDb