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Sorry but casting Americans and Scots to play Australians was doomed to fail. Hedlund and McDonald are both great; until they speak. The Aussie accent is notoriously difficult to fake.

The question really is who made the decision to try and thereby doom an otherwise good movie to struggle.

I don't know it could be the second bottle of Sauv Blanc, Kelly McDonald does a really good Australian accent, the scenery is beautiful, but I don't know what the hell this movie is about.

I came to IMDb so I could understand why I am watching this movie... I still don't know, encouraging my dogs to do toilets is more understandable.

The movie would have been half decent if they had cast actual Australians in the lead roles. Having to sit and listen to those TERRIBLE fake accents made me laugh in parts where I should have been empathising with the characters. It also made most of the dialogue stilted and cringeworthy. It's a real shame that Australian films never seem to have Australians in them... what's the point?

I wasn't sure what to expect after the mixed reviews but as I love the book, decided to give it a go and really enjoyed the movie. Strengths of it are the good acting from a strong cast and amazing WA scenery. Great to see Chris Haywood on screen. Yeah it's not perfect but it successfully avoids so many of the usual film cliches and that made it easy to enjoy and appreciate.

So disappointing, on so many levels. Thank goodness for the beautiful scenery & music. Going to see an adaptation of a Tim Winton book, with Gregor Jordan directing, with David Wenham & Aaron Pedersen in the cast, shot in W A and with Julia Stone contributing her beautiful voice and music, should have been an all round delightful experience. Sadly my expectations were way too high! Very surprised to be so let down by the direction and acting so I can only conclude that Jack Thorne struggled desperately with the adaptation from written word to the screen. Even David Wenham struggled, unusually. A high point of the casting was Aaron Pedersen, just a pity he didn't get more screen time. Hard to understand how the usually highly talented Gregor Jordan's direction was so lacking and again, can only conclude that the product he had to work with was so below standard.