toomelah

Director: ivan sen

Actor: daniel connors,christopher edwards,michael connors,dorothy cubby

Data Published: Thu Nov 24 2011

Genres: Crime,Drama

Key Words: aboriginal australian,place name in title,coming of age,one word title,aboriginal health

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905071/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toomelah_(film)

Description: Toomelah is a movie starring Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, and Michael Connors. In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting...

Plot: Daniel is a ten-year-old boy living in Toomelah, NSW. After being suspended from school for threatening to stab a classmate with a pencil and finding there is little to do in his town, he decides he wants to be a part of the gang controlling the drug trade in his township, so he decides to help Linden, a well known local drug dealer. Bruce, one of Linden's rivals, is released from prison and a turf war erupts. Meanwhile, Daniel faces problems at school and in his family, such as his mother's addictions, the estrangement of his alcoholic father and the return of his aunt who was forcibly removed from the mission as a child during the Stolen Generations.[3][4][5]