Paperback Hero

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An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. ... Read allAn Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Nindigully pub, prominently featured in the film as the Boomerang café, is a real life pub, essentially a town in itself (population 6), located 45 km from the nearest town. It is the oldest hotel (pub) in Queensland, operating continuously since 1864.

Goofs
During the opening credits, the road train is filmed from the air. A helicopter's shadow (presumably the helicopter doing the filming) can be seen briefly on the ground below.

Quotes
Jack Willis: I've written a book.
Ruby Vale: What kind of book?
Jack Willis: A novel. Anyway, it's got your name on it.
Ruby Vale: What? A book with me in it?
Jack Willis: No, a book with your name on it, like on the cover.
Ruby Vale: Like I wrote it?
Jack Willis: Yeah.
Ruby Vale: Why didn't you put your own name on it?
Jack Willis: It's a... it's a... a romance novel.

Connections
Featured in 60 Minutes: On Thin Ice/The Memory Pill/Love Her Way (2007)

Soundtracks
She's Taken My Words
(theme from Paperback Hero (1999))
Written by Andrew Tierney and Michael Tierney
Performed by Human Nature

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Featured review

7/10

Simple pleasure

While this is not Romeo and Juliet, neither is anything else, except for Romeo and Juliet. (And, if I dare speak the heresy, it seems to me that even with that august work, for those of us who are not English Lit graduates the enjoyment would be enhanced if 'twere rendered into more accessible English, without losing the rhythm).

Finally, an Australian filmmaker has (largely) resisted the temptation to portray rural Australians as cardboard Bruces and Sheilas that say 'fair dinkum' and call each other 'cobber' with thick, fabricated accents, a too-common tendency that has held the otherwise sophisticated local film industry back for years.

This is a simple enough romantic tale of boy/girl finding each other - after the catalyst of being thrown together through circumstance lets them break through the barrier of friendship - and it is a movie that is hard not to like. If it does not move you greatly, it should at least cheer you up.