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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Robert Connolly, ranked
The story is set in 1996 and revolves around Danny Kelly, a gifted swimmer who receives a sports scholarship to attend a prestigious private school in Melbourne. Being half Greek and half Irish and from a working-class background, he is subjected to harassment from the wealthy students. Despite this, Danny dreams of winning a swimming gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. With the help of his highly regarded coach Frank Torma, Danny develops a friendship and rivalry with his teammate Martin Taylor, which inspires him to break a world record.
During a family barbecue in the suburbs of Melbourne, a man becomes angry and slaps an unruly child who is a guest at the gathering. This incident leads to strained relationships among the family and friends when the mother of the boy files charges for assault.
Federal Police agent Aaron Falk returns to the struggling farming community of Kiewarra for the funeral of his childhood best friend, Luke Hadler. While Falk is loath to confront the townspeople who rejected him twenty years earlier, the circumstances around the deaths of the Hadlers, what appears to be a murder-suicide, compels him to dig deeper into the events leading up to the tragedy.
A group of five women embarks on a hiking retreat, but when they emerge from the experience, only four remain. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper venture into the mountains, driven by the hope of locating their informant who they believe might still be alive.
Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s, the movie traces the story of a teenage Julian Assange and his group of friends, the International Subversives, as they attempt to infiltrate the computer systems of the world’s most powerful organizations. Eager to unveil the inner workings of these groups, the boys engage in a battle from their bedrooms, leveraging technology against each other and against the AFP Detective tasked with tracking and dismantling their group.
Blueback centers on Abby, a little girl who dives with a spectacular wild blue groper and makes friends with it. When Abby learns that the fish are in danger, she is motivated by her activist mother, Dora, and confronts the poachers to protect her companion.