Laconic cabbie Rex has lived his entire life in the small town of Broken Hill. He’s a stubborn old git, determined to do things his own way. After work, he hoists a few beers at the pub with his mates before returning home to his dog and a surreptitious relationship with his aboriginal neighbor Polly. When he learns that he has terminal cancer, he lights out for a doctor in Darwin, some 1,865 miles away, who is campaigning for die-with-dignity legislation and has a euthanasia machine. But along his epic drive through the Outback he learns that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
“There is a certain kind of film, rare in the best of times, that exudes a distinct creative concentration, a precisely measured marinade of character and story that suggests an extended gestation period of forethought […] As much about an expiring way of life as the controversial decision of a terminally ill man, the film also raises thoughtfully contemporary questions about the nature of mateship, community and friendship.” Eddie Cockrell, Variety
DIRECTOR: Jeremy Sims
Producer: Lisa Duff
Editor: Marcus D'Arcy
Screenwriter: Reg Cribb, Jeremy Sims
Cinematographer: Steve Arnold
Principal Cast: Michael Caton, Jackie Weaver, Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Emma Hamilton, Mark Coles Smith
Filmography: Beneath Hill 60 (2010), Last Train to Freo (2006)
Print Source: First Run Features