December Boys
by Rod Hardy
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Actor: Christian Byers, Daniel Radcliffe, James Fraser, Lee Cormie, Teresa PalmerDirector: Rod Hardy
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: David Connell
Editor: Dany Cooper
Producer: Hal Gaba
Producer: Jonathan Shteinman
Writer: Ronald Kinnoch
Writer: Michael Noonan
Writer: Marc Rosenberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Aura Entertainment
DVD Reviews of December Boys
DVD Review: Cute movie, but less than I expected.
Summary: 3 Stars
Being a Daniel Radcliffe fan, I waited months for this movie to finally be available for purchase on DVD. While it is a cute film, I was disappointed. Maybe my expectations were too high, but it wasn't anything spectacular and I didn't enjoy the ending. It is worth watching, but unless you are a Dan Rad fan, I would say just rent the movie.DVD Review: What Makes A Family
Summary: 4 Stars
December Boys is a movie about the bonds of friendship, and what genuinely makes a family.
Maureen
DVD Review: as expected
Summary: 4 Stars
i <3 dan so i figured this would be worth owning and i was right. Great film!DVD Review: A neat little message, which was enough for this movie to get by on.
Summary: 4 Stars
An older couple decides that it would be nice to have some youthful energy around and offers four young, orphan boys the opportunity to spend the summer with them on the beach. As the boys get a taste for what life would be like with the family they have always wanted, they begin to understand how much they mean to each other.
December Boys was not the most sophisticated movie. It was actually very simple in most aspects, but that was all it needed to be. It was just a touching story about four boys who, when they had no one else, always had each other. But I will warn you that it might take one giant tug at your heartstrings at the end.
I hope you have one or more people in your life for which you are thankful. If you have that, this movie should remind you somewhat of how fortunate you are. I thought it was comforting in how the movie reinforced the importance of family while encouraging you to look beyond constraints of legal relation when you consider who your family is.
DVD Review: Emotionally unstable and unmotivating, Daniel is a deplorable actor
Summary: 2 Stars
December Boys was only premiered in four theatres, one was in Boston where I viewed it with a very eager audience to see Daniel Radcliffe break out from the forever mold of being Harry Potter his whole life. Sadly, he fails in every attempt to try to bring some sort of professionalism to his career. Just because someone is plucked from obscurity, like Eddie Furlong, does not make them an actor. Even with the proper training, a person can still blow at the craft, and although Daniel does have some potential, as his timing is good and his voice is solid, he finds no solid ground amongst an ensemble of other youth, who far carry their roles and the movie much better than he did as the eldest 'December Boy.'
Based upon the crown jeweled-award winning Australian Novel by Mike Noonan of the same name (more or less the equivalent to our (U.S.) 'Catcher in the Rye'), the screenplay missed the wonderment of the novel that so many kids and adults fell in love with and the boys (Fido, Spark, Misty and Maps) who escaped their hell of catholic oprhanage waiting for parents to bring them a home.
While the cinematography is breathtaking, the movie fails to ignite a fire in wanting the boy to find a home. The movie had no wide release, and clearly it shouldn't have, and while Daniel tries to escape from the eventual end of his Potter life, one wonders where his next turn will be.
December Boys is a family film, which lacks conviction and detail to directing, not only does it have a mediocre DVD cover, but the potential of this being a film to cherish for the ages, left me wondering what it would have been like with a director who has visionary capabilities. What a shame.
Description of December Boys
They share the same birth month so the orphanage calls them December Boys. But these teens ? Maps Spit Spark and Misty ? have much more in common. With no hopes of ever joining a family they form their own familial bonds. Then the unexpected news comes that a young couple may adopt one of them and the long-time pals suddenly share something else: a rivalry to be the chosen one.Running Time: 105 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC:?085391189589 Manufacturer No:?1000027397General DVDs
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