Around the Block (2013)

Directors

Sarah Spillane

Cast

Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard, Jack Thompson, Damian Walshe-Howling, Matt Nable, Andrea Demetriades

The story

An American drama teacher named Dino Chalmers, who has a passion for Shakespeare, gets the opportunity to work at a school in Sydney, Australia, where she attempts to introduce theatre as an alternative to life on the tough streets of Redfern in Sydney. She meets a 16-year-old Aboriginal student named Liam, who lives around the block in Redfern and lives a life of drugs and violence. Chalmers presents Liam with a possibility of a life without drugs and violence by giving him the lead in the production of Hamlet, and so he must choose between pursuing his newfound dream of acting or following his family into a cycle of crime.

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