Have a sticky beak at Storm Boy

The family friendly movie has a strong environmental message, and embodies one of the most powerful themes in a movie, the idea of loving something and learning to let it go.

The tale begins when Storm Boy, aka Michael played by Geoffrey Rush, a retired businessman and grandfather, finds himself reminiscing about his past and his long-forgotten childhood.

After arriving back in the big smoke to his son, Malcolm, played by Erik Thomson, who is eager to close a lucrative but controversial mining deal, and Maddie, his granddaughter, played by Morgana Davies, a passionate environmentalist, who is vowing never to speak to her father again, Michael is left to sort out his family and corporate traumas.

To prevent his young granddaughter from going down a similar path to one he took years before, he recounts his childhood story.

As a boy he lived a lonely existence with his father, nicknamed Hideaway Tom, on 90 mile beach.

One day he meets Fingerbone played by Trevor Jamieson an Aboriginal outcast who befriends young Michael and after hearing shots, they find three orphaned baby pelicans.

Through a series of flashbacks he relates how he rescued and raised the pelicans, one of which was extraordinary and who he named Mr Percival.  

He recounts their remarkable adventures and the very special bond which had a profound effect on his life and still does.

I give this one 5/5.