The discovery of a dead body by four small town Australian males on a camping and fishing expedition, and their failure to abort their trip to report it, provides the catalyst to push the entire community closer to the edge of implosion. The nuclear family, and race relations, seem as dissonant here, if not more so, than anywhere else. Top quality movie making and very thought provoking.
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SIMON SCHAMA'S ROUGH CROSSINGS (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A little known passage of British history - the fate of the black men who volunteered for the King's Men in the American War of Independence. At least the Empire didn't abandon them to the slaver George Washington and his thugs, instead dumping them on the desolate Novia Scotia coastline. But where there's life there's hope and enter the radical Thomas Clarkson's brother, a young naval officer named John, who, energised by their living conditions, collected the remnants and shipped them to Freet
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