Bondi Hipster Christiaan Van Vuuren’s outback romp about a nogoodnik St Nick is spirited and sweet in a backhanded way
We could all do with some extra Christmas cheer this year, and who better to provide it then a two-bit criminal pretending to be Santa? Lots of people, of course, but the good folk on a drought-stricken farm in the warm, playful, funny festive film A Sunburnt Christmas understand more than most that beggars can’t be choosers. They’ll take what they can get – which happens to be an on-the-run crook named Daryl who knows a big bag of stolen cash is buried somewhere on their property, and recruits the family’s two youngest kids – Daisy (Lena Nankivell) and Tom (Eadan McGuinness) – to help him find it by maintaining the ruse that he is Santa Claus.
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We could all do with some extra Christmas cheer this year, and who better to provide it then a two-bit criminal pretending to be Santa? Lots of people, of course, but the good folk on a drought-stricken farm in the warm, playful, funny festive film A Sunburnt Christmas understand more than most that beggars can’t be choosers. They’ll take what they can get – which happens to be an on-the-run crook named Daryl who knows a big bag of stolen cash is buried somewhere on their property, and recruits the family’s two youngest kids – Daisy (Lena Nankivell) and Tom (Eadan McGuinness) – to help him find it by maintaining the ruse that he is Santa Claus.
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- 12/14/2020
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Created and written by Elliot Vella, Gretel Vella and Timothy Walker, and directed by Christiaan Van Vuuren, this very Australian comedy is not your typical cliché Christmas movie. A Sunburnt Christmas is a wild, hilarious and heartfelt story about a single mum and her kids doing it tough on their outback farm until a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes into their property and their lives.
Starring Daniel Henshall, Lena Nankivell, Eaden McGuinness, Tatiana Goode, Sullivan Stapleton, Ling Cooper Tang, the Every Cloud Productions and Highview Productions film premieres on Stan December 11.
The post ‘A Sunburnt Christmas’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
Starring Daniel Henshall, Lena Nankivell, Eaden McGuinness, Tatiana Goode, Sullivan Stapleton, Ling Cooper Tang, the Every Cloud Productions and Highview Productions film premieres on Stan December 11.
The post ‘A Sunburnt Christmas’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
- 11/26/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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