When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.
12-26-2016
1h 28m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Kriv Stenders
Writer:
Daniel Taplitz
Production:
Woss Group Film Productions
Revenue:
$6,625,303
Key Crew
Script Supervisor:
Melissa Hayward
Editor:
Jill Bilcock
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Marco Augusto Comba
Locations and Languages
Country:
US; AU
Filming:
AU
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Levi Miller
Levi Zane Miller (born September 30, 2002) is an Australian actor and model. He is known for his roles in Pan (2015), Better Watch Out (2016), and A Wrinkle in Time (2018). At the age of 5 or 6, he won a drama competition with a Peter Pan monologue. In 2015, he was named ambassador for Polo, the Ralph Lauren kids' fall campaign.
Hanna Mangan-Lawrence (born 5 March 1991 in London, England) is an Australian and British actress, best known in Australia for her role as Holly in the drama series Bed of Roses in which she received an AFI Award nomination in 2008 and a Logie Award nomination in 2009, and internationally as Seppia in the Starz historical drama Spartacus: Vengeance.
Mangan-Lawrence started her film career in 2005 with the short films, Simulation 1201 and Galore. This was followed by a starring role as Georgie, in the short film Sexy Thing, which was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival.
Mangan-Lawrence was the cast in the 2008 horror film, Acolytes, directed by John Hewitt, premièred at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. In Acolytes, she played the role of Chasely, a naive and coquettish high school student. She subsequently featured in Nash Edgerton's film, The Square, as Lily. She was nominated for a Filmink award for 'Best Australian Newcomer' for this performance.
In 2009, she appeared in the Australian period drama, Lucky Country, directed by Kriv Stenders.
Mangan-Lawrence has featured in the Australian drama series, Bed of Roses, which screened on the ABC television network, playing Holly Atherton. In 2008, she received an AFI Award nomination for "Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama" for her role in Bed of Roses She was also nominated for the 'Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding New Talent' at the Logie Awards in 2009.
In 2012, Mangan-Lawrence starred in the feature-film, Thirst alongside Myles Pollard, Victoria Haralabidou, and Tom Green. She also became a recurring cast member, Seppia, on the Starz television series, Spartacus: Vengeance.
Mangan-Lawrence is the daughter of Maggie Mangan, an English teacher and playwright, and her father is Ray Lawrence a geography, economics and business studies teacher. She has a half-sister Rosene, two half-brothers Liam and Reuben, a stepsister Zoe and stepmother Paddy, also a teacher. She has represented Australia overseas as a member of the elite gymnastics team. In 2005, she won "Acrobat of the Year – International – Senior" at the Gymnastics Australia National Awards. In 2009, Mangan-Lawrence completed her high school education at the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts through Pathways.
Bryan Neathway Brown (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along Came Polly (2004), Australia (2008), Kill Me Three Times (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
Bryan Brown was first introduced to an English-Australian actress-director Rachal Ward on the set of the TV mini-series, The Thorn Birds in 1983 and married a few months after filming wrapped. They have three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise series (2002–2011), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), James Wolfe in Battle of the Brave (2004), Antonio Pérez in The Escorial Conspiracy (2007), Georgy Zhukov in The Death of Stalin (2017), and John Godfrey in Operation Mincemeat (2021).
His television roles include Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy in the Netflix supernatural mystery drama streaming series The OA (2016–2019) and Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2018).
His voice acting roles include Admiral Zhao in the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) and the second season of The Legend of Korra (2013), and the Grand Inquisitor/Sentinel in Star Wars Rebels (2014–2016).
Isaacs has appeared on stage as Louis Ironson in Declan Donnellan's 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theatre premiere of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes and as hitman Ben in a 2007 revival of Harold Pinter's 1957 play The Dumb Waiter at Trafalgar Studios in the West End.
He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Miniseries or Television Film for The State Within (2006) and for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe (2008). He also was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actor, won the Satellite Award for Best Actor—Miniseries or Television Film for Case Histories (2011–2013), and was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actor—Television Series Drama for Brotherhood (2006–2008).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Isaacs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Thomas Michel Cocquerel (6 September, 1989) is an Australian actor. On television, he is known for his role as Tom Raikes in Julian Fellowes' HBO Max series The Gilded Age (2022). His films include OtherLife (2017), Billionaire Boys Club, Celeste, In Like Flynn (2018), and The Divorce Party (2019).Cocquerel was born in Sydney to French father Patrick and Australian mother Georgia. His younger sisters Emilie, Elsa, and Anna are also actors. He spent his early childhood in Spain, France, and the United States before returning to Sydney in 2001, settling in the North Shore suburb of Warrawee. He attended the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (colloquially known as the Shore School). He went on to graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2012.
Kee Chan was born during a period of social turbulence in Singapore.
A move to Australia with his family would set Kee on a path to realizing his childhood dreams. Kee returned to his childhood aspiration of becoming a professional actor. Despite a tentative start playing small roles on Australian television shows, Kee, whose name means "Keeper of the Peace," was cast as Fedallah, the lead support role to Patrick Stewart (Captain Ahab), in "Moby Dick" (1998). A support role in Mission: Impossible II (2000) and several other movies eventually led to a role as Senator Malé-Dee in the last installment of the George Lucas epic, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
In 2002, Kee landed a lead role opposite Dennis Hopper in the 22 episode, multi-time dimension drama series, "Flatland" (2002).
Widely traveled with numerous location shoots around the world, Kee resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Justine Clarke (born 1971) is an Australian actor and singer. She has been acting since the age of seven and has appeared in some of Australia's best-known TV shows. She is also a film and stage actor, and won the Best Actress Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2006 for her role in Look Both Ways.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Justine Clarke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jarratt was born and grew up in Wongawilli, a small rural town near Wollongong, New South Wales and later in the Snowy Mountains area. Jarratt’s father was a coal miner and later a concreter, who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. His 5x great-grandfather, George Jarratt, born 1833, came from Croxton in Cambridgeshire, England; his son, John, married a Mary Kelly from Ireland. While in high school, Jarratt directed and acted in a school play which was a great success and led to his school principal recommending him for an acting career. Jarratt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973. His screen debut was in The Great Macarthy. He also appeared in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1975 and Summer City in 1977 with Mel Gibson. Jarratt had the lead role in the mini series The Last Outlaw playing Ned Kelly in 1979. He played a major supporting role as a young Australian soldier in Vietnam war movie The Odd Angry Shot, 1980. In the late 1980s, Jarratt recognised he had a problem with binge drinking and related violence and joined Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation in which he continues to be active. In the 1990s, he was a presenter on the lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens with then-wife Noni Hazlehurst. He had guest roles in Inspector Morse, Police Rescue, Blue Murder, Water Rats and Blue Heelers in the 1990s and 2000s. He joined the cast of McLeod’s Daughters in 2001, and left the show in 2006. In 2010, Jarratt appeared in a commercial for Husqvarna.
In May 2013, Jarratt filmed a guest star role in the third instalment of the ABC telemovie series, Jack Irish: Dead Point. In 2005, he had a major role in the Australian film Wolf Creek, playing the villain Mick Taylor.[5] In 2007, he appeared in two films, Rogue and The Final Winter. Jarratt also had a small role in the 2008 film, Australia, as a soldier.
In 2008, Jarratt launched his own film production company, Winnah Films. Winnah’s first feature film, Savages Crossing (originally carrying the working title Flood) went into principal photography outside Ipswich, Queensland in February. In 2009, he appears as the father of a teenage girl via phone in Telstra’s “Next G” commercials. In 2010, Jarratt starred in the ensemble exploitation extravaganza, Bad Behaviour, written and directed by Joseph Sims. In the same year, Jarratt also had a role in the supernatural horror movie Needle.
He made a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained in 2012, appearing as an employee of the Le Quint Dickie Mining Company alongside Tarantino himself, both appearing with Australian accents.
In February 2013, Jarratt reprised his role as Mick Taylor, filming the Wolf Creek sequel, Wolf Creek 2, with Matt Hearn producing and Greg McLean directing. The film was released on 20 February 2014. In January 2014, a new thriller called StalkHer began filming on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The film is co-directed by Jarratt, who also stars in the production. The producer of the film is ‘OZPIX’, a production company partly owned by Jarratt. Filming was completed in February 2014, and will screen later in the year.
