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Movie review of Around the Block (2013) by The Critical Movie Critics | Christina Ricci is a teacher who tries to reach the impoverished in Australia.
- Andrea Demetriades
- Sarah Spillane
Around the Block: Directed by Sarah Spillane. With Hunter Page-Lochard, Christina Ricci, Aaron L. McGrath, Elias Reese. An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
An American teacher (Christina Ricci) in Australia hopes to inspire her at-risk students by launching a version of "Hamlet" with a predominantly Aboriginal cast. Fandango at Home Prime Video. Rent...
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- Christina Ricci
- Sarah Spillane
- Drama
Aug 1, 2014 · Writer-director Sarah Spillane may be overly earnest and obvious with her tale, particularly in the on-the-nose connection between the play and Liam’s life outside school, which sees his older brother (Mark Coles Smith) gung-ho to take violent revenge on the mobster who killed their uncle and eager to ensure that Liam is in on the job.
Around the Block is a 2013 Australian drama film directed and written by Sarah Spillane. The films stars Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard, Jack Thompson, and Damian Walshe-Howling.
Sep 19, 2013 · An attention-grabbing, potentially profile-elevating performance by up-and-comer Hunter Page-Lochard is the major selling point of “Around the Block,” an Aussie variation of the oft-spun ...
The film's musty premise, about a novice instructor trying to deter an Aboriginal student from crime with Shakespeare, renders it the cinematic equivalent of warmed-over soup from the school ...
