Storm Boy (film)

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Storm Boy
Directed by Henri Safran
Written by Sonia Borg
Starring Greg Rowe,
Peter Cummins,
David Gulpilil
Release date(s) 1976
Running time 88 mins
Language English
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Storm Boy is a 1976 Australian film, based on the children's book by Colin Thiele about a boy and his pelican.

Storm Boy (Greg Rowe) likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong. He and his father live a reclusive life among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean. After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues 3 chicks; he names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival, and nurses them back to health. His father, known to some as 'Hideaway Tom,' forces Storm Boy to release the birds, but Mr Percival returns. The story then concentrates on the conflict between Storm Boy's lifestyle and the externally imposed requirement for him to attend school, and the fate of the pelican.

Storm Boy's real name in the film is Mike -- the moniker 'Storm Boy' was given to him by Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), a local Indigenous man who becomes Mike's friend.

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