A heart-warming family comedy about a disgraced TV Host and a young indigenous girl who work together to rescue and rehabilitate a group of orphaned joeys in a remote Australian Outback community.
When Chris Masterman (Ryan Corr) loses his job as a TV breakfast show presenter in Sydney, he heads west to take up another offer but accidentally runs over a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch, damaging his sports car in the process. The only person he can interest in his predicament is 12-year-old indigenous girl Charlie (Lily Whiteley – a real find here) who is having her own problems adjusting to the Outback town, but finds him (and the joey) a place to stay. Here, Chris has a chance for redemption, but not before making heavy weather of ingratiating himself with the locals. Ernie Dingo (‘Crocodile Dundee’) is at his homespun best as chatty local mechanic who is in no hurry to fix Chris’s car. ‘Kangaroo’ is a fun film, loaded with Aussie charm, and manages to sell both the wonder of the beleaguered Alice Springs region, and glitzy Bondi Beach, to the world.
Australia 2025 Kate Woods 117m
