Last Ride (2009)


John Brumpton           Max
Mick Coulthard          Uncle Cliff
Rachel Francis          Ella
Anita Hegh              Maryanne
Adam Morgan             Blu
Levine Ngatokorua       Fleur
Chrissie Page           Shopkeeper
Kelton Pell             Lyall
Tom Russell             Chook
Sonya Suares            Zareena Khan
Hugo Weaving            Kev
Chris Weir              Pub Local #2  

Directed by:            Glendyn Ivin
Produced by:            


A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.

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A beautifully drawn, moody film filled with poetry, as it describes the troubled relationship 
between a father and son. It is all at once a road movie and a coming of age story in which 
murder, curiosity and struggling to survive are key.

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Ten-year-old Tom Russell stars as Chook alongside master thespian Hugo Weaving, in a story about 
a father escaping with his son into the South Australian desert following a mysterious crime. With 
Chook at the mercy of his father’s unpredictable moods, and the pair’s predicament seeming 
increasingly hopeless, the tension builds to a devastating climax in which the boy takes things 
into his own hands. It was the complex and shifting bonds of the father–son relationship that first 
spoke to Ivin when he came across the script, written by Mac Gudgeon (Ground Zero, The Delinquents) 
and based on Denise Young’s award-winning novel, The Last Ride.