After he releases them, Mr Percival returns to never leave Michael's side. On the advice of his father, the pelicans are to be returned to the wild, however, Michael is distraught at the thought of letting go. Michael names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. In the process of raising the birds, Michael and his Father grow closer raising the birds. He finds great joy in nursing them back to health with the help of Fingerbone Bill. Hearing shots being fired, a pelican mother is killed and Michael rescues three orphaned pelican chicks. Michael's fisherman father ( Hideaway Tom) is haunted by a family tragedy and remains uncommunicative - as a result, his relationship with Michael suffers. Malcolm wants Michael's vote ,whilst Maddy is unable to join the board to cast her vote until she turns 18. The matter at hand is the leasing of Western Australian farmland to a mining company which Michael's granddaughter Maddy ( Morgana Davies) is opposed to. An idyllic stretch of pristine coastline, living in a simple wooden shack, wandering the deserted coast amongst the dunes that face out to the Southern Ocean this is the world of Storm boy.Ī weary Storm boy is all grown up as Michael Kingsley ( Geoffrey Rush) who is summoned to Adelaide for an important board vote for a company he founded, which is now run by his son in law Malcolm ( Erik Thomson). It opens with dream-like sequences with views of the beautiful and reverent Australian landscape.
#Storm boy original update#
Director Shawn Seet (whose credits include Two Fists, One Heart) and screenwriter Justin Monjo, update the story to modern times, which makes for a riveting family-friendly story with the addition of Geoffrey Rush who plays grown-up Storm boy and Jai Courtney as Storm boy's father.
A grown-up Storm boy, Michael Kingley, tells the story of his childhood to his granddaughter, Maddy, in the hopes that she doesn't repeat his painful history by rebelling against her father.īased on the adaptation of Colin Thiele's Australian children's book, the new version isn't exactly the same as the 1976 predecessor but it hits the same tender and touching moments. He forms a friendship with an orphaned pelican, Mr Percival that changes his life forever. Storm boy lives a lonely existence with his father Hideaway Tom, in an isolated remote area of Coorong, South Australia. Storm Boy is the story of a boy, who forms an unlikely friendship with a pelican, which remains as mesmerising as ever with the recent remake.
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