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December Boys

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Australia, Germany, United States · 2007
Rated PG-13 · 1h 45m
Director Rod Hardy
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Lee Cormie, Christian Byers, James Fraser
Genre Drama, Romance

December Boys follows four teenage orphans raised in the Australian outback. Having grown up together in the same orphanage, the boys are as close as brothers. They've given up on being adopted-- until one summer, when they find themselves competing for the attention of the same young couple.

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Village Voice by

If Daniel Radcliffe is hoping for an acting life after Harry Potter, he might want to be choosier than this cloying little Australian number.

75

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

This charming tale of a quartet of Australian orphans who share a life-altering holiday in the 1960s should appeal to sentimental adults old enough to wax nostalgic over their own adolescences.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust

A refreshingly gentle treatment of familiar themes such as the inevitability of change, the dashing of youthful illusions and mutability of family. Enhanced by an exotic locale, the movie overcomes a well-trodden narrative path and unflinchingly brandishes its sentimentality as it stakes out its crowd-pleasing territory.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

The film's dramatic moments are small but exquisitely rendered so that you feel the emotions experienced so many years ago. The film lingers afterward in your mind like a favorite vacation that triggered moments of sheer intensity.

67

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The filmmakers can't decide whether to trust the period innocence of the book (and play down their casting coup) or let the young man rip as a preteen-babe magnet... So December Boys splits the difference -- safely, dully.

67

The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

For much of its duration, December is poignantly bittersweet, but the closing sugar rush washes its pleasing ambiguities away.

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