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Bran Nue Dae (2009)

Bran Nue Dae poster
Directed by
Rachel Perkins
Genre
musical film, comedy drama
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the late 1960s, an Aboriginal Australian teenager runs away from a missionary boarding school and goes on a road trip. He travels across Western Australia with a colorful group of characters, discovering his identity and reconnecting with his culture.

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What happens

Bran Nue Dae is a 2009 Australian musical comedy-drama film directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins and Reg Cribb. A feature film adaptation of the 1990 stage musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi, the film tells the story of the coming of age of an Aboriginal Australian teenager on a road trip in the late 1960s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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