Based on the novel by Michael Noonan, DECEMBER BOYS is a touching coming-of-age drama set in Australia in the 1960s. Maps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Sparks (Christian Byers), and Spit (James Fraser) are four best friends who live in a Catholic orphanage, hoping to be adopted but learning that dreams don't come true--and adults often let kids down. Because they were all born in December, they are the first group of boys who get to travel to a small cove and stay with an older couple, Bandy (Jack Thompson) and Skipper (Kris McQuade), two of the orphanage's benefactors who have offered to house the kids during the Christmas season. Once off on this rare vacation, the boys play in the sand and water, eat well, ride on a motorcycle, go to a carnival, and experience other new and exciting things as they quickly learn that there is more to the world than they ever imagined--and they get to meet some very strange characters in the process. But when Misty overhears that Teresa (Victoria Hill) and her husband, Fearless (Sullivan Stapleton), are considering adopting one of them, the battle is on--except for Maps, who is older than the others and instead spends his time with Lucy (Teresa Palmer), experiencing his first romance. Filmed in Adelaide and on Kangaroo Island and directed by longtime television veteran Rod Hardy, DECEMBER BOYS features beautiful locations, a talented cast, and a terrific soundtrack, including period songs by Norman Greenbaum ("Spirit in the Sky"), the Easybeats ("Friday on My Mind"), and Creedence Clearwater Revival ("Who'll Stop the Rain").

Theatrical Release: September 14, 2007

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Spanish
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Additional Scenes
Trailer

Daniel Radcliffe: British actor, HARRY POTTER
Lee Cormie: Actor, DARKNESS FALLS (2003)
Christian Byers: Actor, DECEMBER BOYS
James Fraser: Actor, DECEMBER BOYS
Jack Thompson: Australian Actor

Rod Hardy: Director

Richard Becker: Producer, DECEMBER BOYS

Marc Rosenberg: Screenwriter

Carlo Giacco: Composer, DECEMBER BOYS

3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he HARRY POTTER star broods maturely....A warm, sentimental glow prevails at the end..."
"There's much to like in this sensitive, moody depiction of turbulent teenage emotions -- Cormie, Byers and Fraser are uniformly excellent while the equally fine Radcliffe all but erases any memory of his Harry Potter self."
"[A] nostalgia-driven coming-of-age drama....A nicely wrought film of modest ambitions..."