Brand New Day

Upbeat songs highlight this colorful, wacky, high-energy, 2009 film, which is based on a popular 1990 musical, in which a 16-year-old, love-struck Aboriginal student (Rocky McKenzie) runs away from a strict Perth boarding school run by a no-nonsense Catholic priest (Geoffrey Rush) in 1969 and is befriended by a hard-drinking homeless man (Ernie Dingo), two hippies (Deborah Mailman and Tom Budge), and a prostitute (Madga Szubanski) on his way home to his mother (Missy Higgins) and a comely teenage singer (Jessica Mauboy).
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