Mad Bastards

Mad Bastards (2010)

Because Some Things Really Matter

TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make things right with his son.
 Grandpa Tex has lived a tough life, and now, as a local cop in the outback town of Five Rivers, he wants to change things for the men in his community.

Date of release
2010-01-21
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Brendan Fletcher

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 3

Mad Bastards is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Brendan Fletcher. Set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the film uses mainly local Aboriginal people in the cast, and draws on their stories for the plotline. It is Fletcher's debut film and it premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Production

Director and scriptwriter Brendan Fletcher, usually based in Sydney, wrote the film in collaboration with the lead actors, who were local Indigenous people, and John Watson, an elder of the Jarlmadangah people.

The storyline was developed from the true stories of local Indigenous people of the Kimberley region in Western Australia, where the film was shot.

Greg Tait, a Gidja man was a reformed young offender who became a policeman, was given a leading role.

The film was co-produced by musician brothers Alan Pigram and Stephen Pigram, who also provided an original score and performed in the film, along with David Jowsey and Fletcher. Ngaire Pigram, Stephen's daughter, played the female lead role.

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