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Blue Fin

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Original title

Blue Fin

Year

1978

Running time

88 min.

Country

Australia

Director

Carl Schultz, Bruce Beresford

Screenwriter

Sonia Borg. Novel: Colin Thiele

Cast

Music

Michael Carlos

Cinematography

Geoff Burton

Producer

McElroy & McElroy, South Australian Film Corporation. Distributor: Southern Star International, Southern Star

Genre

Adventure. Drama | Sea Adventures. Family-friendly

Synopsis

Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.

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User history

Blue Fin

1978

Carl Schultz, Bruce Beresford