The Sapphires
2012 · Movie · 100 min. · Australia
1968 was the year the planet went haywire. All around the globe, there were riots and revolution in the streets. There were hard drugs, soft drugs, free love and psychedelic music. There was the shock of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy’s assassinations. And dominating every other news story. There was Vietnam. For four gorgeous young women from a remote Aboriginal mission, 1968 was the year that changed their lives forever. Sisters Gail, Julie and Cynthia, together with their cousin Kay, are discovered by Dave, a down-on-his-luck Irish musician with attitude, a taste for Irish Whiskey and an ear for Soul Music. Dave steers the girls away from their Country & Western origins then flies them to the war-zones of South Vietnam, where they sing Soul Classics for the American Marines. On tour in the Mekong Delta, the girls sing up a storm, dodge bullets. And fall in love.
Direction Wayne Blair
Cast Jessica Mauboy · Chris O'Dowd · Deborah Mailman · Shari Sebbens · Miranda Tapsell · Judith Lucy · Georgina Haig · Cleave Williams · Kylie Belling · Tory Kittles
Soundtrack Bry Jones · Cezary Skubiszewski
Screenplay Tony Briggs · Keith Thompson
Cinematography Warwick Thornton
Original title The Sapphires
6.1
191 votes (FilmAffinity)
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