Synopsis
Play Hard. Give Everything. Never Cross The Line.
An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Blinder
Cast
Jack Thompson Oliver Ackland Zoe Carides Josh Helman Anna Hutchison Rose McIver Bob Morley Angus Sampson Aaron Jakubenko Declan McGovern Nick Farnell Rick Donald Paul Ireland Jeremy Stanford Lisa Kowalski Catherine Hill Charlie Terrier Sam Norbury Miranda Skerman Jackson Tozer Jarrad Kennedy Jack Didier Sarah Jane Robert Russell Frost Kieran Houdge Clint Dodd Joseph Trichilo Ava Deluca-Verley John Hurley Show All…
Director
Producers
Christopher Lemole Scott Didier Michele Davis-Gray Richard Gray Virginia Kay Mike Gillespie Joseph Trichilo Jamie Houge Benton Morris Raffaele Lopriore
Writers
Casting
Editor
Cinematography
Assistant Directors
Executive Producers
Camera Operators
Additional Photography
Production Design
Art Direction
Visual Effects
Stunts
A.J. Paratore Chris Kemp Matt Triplett Richard Anastasios Russell Frost Simon Farrow Craig Brookshaw Daryl Suter Michael O'Bree Adrian Pickering Lachlan Ward Clint Dodd
Composer
Sound
Darren Sunny Warkentin Adam Afiff Shawn Kennelly Paul Clark John Garrett Stephen Dickson Vince Nicastro Brett Rothfeld Tim Hoogenakker Anthony Vanchure Courtney Bishop
Costume Design
Makeup
Releases by Date
Theatrical
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Australia
Digital
07 Mar 2013
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Canada18A
Releases by Country
Australia
07 Mar 2013
- Theatrical
Canada
07 Mar 2013
- Digital18A
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I love sports, but I'm not all that familiar with Australian rules football, so I thought this might be a fun film to watch for some insights into the game. Sure enough, the action sequences are well shot and quite exciting, surrounded by a workmanlike story developed by writer-director Richard Gray making his third film.
Oliver Ackland plays the lead here as a promising footballer named Tom, who's talented but not especially serious about his position on the successful Torquay Tigers of the Bellarine Football League. Like most of his mates, he dreams of being selected for the AFL, but Coach Chang (Jack Thompson) doesn't trust his attitude and benches him for the 2002 Grand Final match, which they go…
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watched only bc of bob morley and was kinda worth it
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I only watched this for Morley's glorious face, how sad is my life ?
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It's the bye week before next week's AFL Grand Final, and without a game or any news to watch(AFL 360 isn't any fun without Mark "Robbo" Robinson). I figured I would catch up on any Aussie rules-related films that I haven't watched yet, and I regret choosing this instead of watching The Great MacArthy instead.
Lately on Fox Footy there's been this Google ad running, showing an immigrant and his daughter bonding over footy, as he learns how where to get a Sherrin, how to handball, and gets his daughter into the Hawks girls junior footy club, all thanks to Google's handy voice search. It's a sentimental and cloying but I actually kinda like it (a hell of a lot…
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It’s Aright For An Aussie Film
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The preeminent — likely the only — Aussie rules statutory rape drama.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Blinder is a drama set in the world of a local Aussie Rules football club. Tom (Oliver Ackland) is currently a kicking coach for an American college football team in Boston when he gets the call that his old coach (Jack Thompson, sadly not playing the same character from The Club) has died on the eve of the grand final in which his old team, the Torquay Tigers, are playing off in the grand final. Tom returns to Torquay and remembers the reason why he left Torquay; a scandal involving himself and his teammates and some doings with an underage girl.
After being dropped from the 2002 grand final for having a poor attitude, thereby missing a chance to impress…
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idk man... this movie just felt so... RANDOM. I wouldn't say it was BORING, but like... what was the meaning behind the story? the purpose of telling it? the message? the moral? the feeling we're supposed to be left with? I can answer 0 of those questions.
a question I can answer: did angus sampson look really really good? the answer is yes, obviously. yes he did. so i kinda dgaf about the other stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Was the grooming plot line necessary for me to try to understand footy??
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I've watched this 3 times for bob morley, and I still don't understand rugby
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was immediately pulled in by Blinder because the lead character, Oliver Ackland's Tom Dunn, coaches at Merrimack College (I have a friend who studies at Merrimack and he gave me a Merrimack t-shirt, which I adore). But that only accounts for the opening five minutes. If the nauseating melodrama and poorly-done black-and-white transitions weren't enough, Richard Gray demonstrates a severe lack of situational awareness by completely romanticising predatory behaviour and asking the audience to get on board with the comeback story of the century i.e. sexual predators barely getting a slap on the wrist and winning the Grand Final. The action scenes, the Aussie Rules matches, actually make for entertaining viewing but this film doesn't sit well with me.
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