This Aussie film follows Rex, Michael Caton, on his journey to Darwin, undertaken after discovering he has terminal cancer and that the NT is legislating to allow medically supervised euthanasia.
Knowing that about the film I'd prepared for it to be sad & packed a bunch of tissues but it's really quite uplifting. I didn't cry once actually, though there was some poignant moments. It's a drama but told with wry Australian humour so there is some laughs to be had.
There was one let-down for me. AFL commentator Brian Taylor plays a football coach and how the fact that he cannot act very well escaped the notice of the film makers is beyond me.
Michael Caton, on the other hand, was excellent.
I was surprised to find about 40-50 people in the same suburban cinema as me when I went to see it. Perhaps this film has more legs than most Australians films of late. I enjoyed it but it probably doesn't make it up into rush-out-and-see-this territory.
A 3.5 star Leigh Paatsch review in the Herald Sun here if you want to read more.
Trailer here.