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Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)

1h 28m

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December 12, 1988
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Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)

Name: Sebastian and the Sparrow
Released: 1988-12-12

1h 28m

Running Time

December 12, 1988
Release Date

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Plot.

The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.

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Cast & Crew.

Alexander Bainbridge

Sebastian

Jeremy Angerson

Sparrow

Robert Coleby

Peter Thornbury

Elizabeth Alexander

Jenny Thornbury

John Clayton

Country Cop

Vincent Gil

Streetworker (Mick)

Alice Ramsay

Maude

Jethro Heysen-Hicks

Jethro

Chris Roberts

Turbo

Peter Crossley

Red

Patrick Frost

School Teacher

John Foster

Focus Puller

Scott Hicks

Director

Greg Lamey

Still Photographer

Michael Bambacas

Clapper Loader

Scott Hicks

Director / Writer

Allan Zavod

Composer

David Foreman

Cinematographer

Pip Karmel

Editor

Anni Browning

ProductionDesigner

Details.

Release Date
December 12, 1988

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 28m

Last updated: 2024-09-22

Wiki.

Sebastian and the Sparrow is a 1988 Australian film directed by Scott Hicks. Hicks says he wanted to make the film one he could watch with his teenage son:

It was a kind of junior buddy movie with the theme of two people who envied each other's life. To Sebastian, Sparrow has the perfect life: nobody's on his back, he can do what he likes. It looks like glorious freedom. But to Sparrow the constraints of that life are very real. There is Sebastian with the luxury of a home, a family and a very well-to-do existence which was Nirvana to him. I love the way those thoughts could jostle together.