Buckley's Chance

Buckley's Chance was a light hearted movie with a simple but touching storyline.

The scenery was wonderful, especially if you love the outback. Some have said the acting is ordinary & what is Bill Nighly doing in this film...I thought the same, but he did a pretty good job at the 'aussie accent'. The movie is very suitable for kids & I don't recall one swear word in this movie at all! A pretty rare thing these days.

Well done cast & crew....my partner & I really enjoyed it.

The first alarm bell went off during the credits when I saw that the writer, the producer and the director were the one person. This lack of normal creative filters that a group approach provides can often lead to problems, and this film suffered some clangers. The film's biggest attraction (Bill Nighy) became its biggest problem. His rich upper class English accent was there in all it's glory. I love Bill, but he should never have been cast in this role. I bailed when he met his fellow outback farmers in a café and they all had appropriate broad Aussie accents making the whole thing farcical.

The other clanger was making him a sheep farmer. The property was set in marginal cattle country in the "deep outback". Who was checking these fundamentals?

Just no. As an Aussie I found this totally awful to the point that I had to turn it off after the first 20 minutes. Every cringe worthy cliche was thrown at the script. Bill Nighy what were you thinking??

Good little film, I found it to be an enjoyable experience, can't understand the bad reviews, what are they expecting for goodness sake? It's no classic, but a lot better than some of the garbage they put out these days that get better reviews! Didn't have a problem with Bill Nighy's accent, like some apparently do? Too many critics seem to nitpick when it's just a movie, and does what it sets out to do, offer a bit of light hearted entertainment with no bad language or questionable scenes, go see it, and enjoy it, I did!

Always liked Bill but the dingo is beautiful.

It is incorrectly credited on the titles as being called Sunny, which is sad as it does shortly after filming.

It isn't even credited at all on IMDb which is poor, but it was called Sonny.

RIP Sonny, forever enshrined on the silver screen now.