Christian Byers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Robert Menzies, Sapphire Boyce, Vince Colosimo
Eight-year-old Kellyanne has an idealistic father, Rex, who is one of the many local denizens feverishly mining the landscape for opals; meanwhile, her mother Annie and her 11-year-old brother, Ashmol...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2007
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August 4, 2007This is a sound story but it needs to be remade because there is no cinematic urgency in it and there's little effort to make this more appealin to people who aren't australians. Without more pressin drama, this comes off as very light and almost forgettable. Did teach me another...( read more)
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December 5, 2009algunas personas que hayan tenido una infancia solitaria podrán sentirse un poco identificados con ésta película. Creo que es un poco exagerada la situación aunque soy consciente que hay niños así, pero en mi caso no fue a tanto...en el sentido de que era consciente que las demás...( read more)
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November 30, 2009This is definitely a film that will polarize its audience. On the one hand, it's a pleasant (albeit non-germane) 'family' film that never rises above its indie roots. On the other hand, it's too cloying for your average viewer. It's all very similar to the superior 'Lars And The ...( read more)
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January 31, 2009beautiful film very touching vince colosimo is great in this so is sapphire boyce
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March 12, 2008This little film from Australia is about a family that lives a sort of obscured life while the father mines for opals in the fields each day dreaming of the big find. His 8 year old daughter who is painfully shy has two imaginary friends. When they go missing she mysteriously b...( read more)
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December 27, 2007It's heartwarming, but then a happy-ish kind of depressing-es. Am I making any sense?
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February 2, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
November 19, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Sweet themes are shoddily executed in Opal Dreams, another tale from director Peter Cattaneo about outsiders doggedly holding onto their aspirations. full review
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