As I am currently residing in Australia, I think it is time I become better acquainted with the films that have been produced and created Down Under. I have started my education with a romantic comedy that features a young Hugh Jackman as our "hero", Jack Willis who writes love stories on napkins as he drives around the country in a road train. The comedic scenario evolves as a publisher arrives in their outback diner looking for Ruby Vale; a friend of Jack's but also the pseudonym under which he has written his novel. He manages to persuade his friend to play the part of author and travel to Sydney with him, taking a share in the profits and his promise that he will pay for her wedding to the perfectly nice but seemingly dull, Hamish. Ruby undergoes a classic makeover physically and holds back the usual cascade of profanity that issues from her mouth. After all this trouble it soon transpires that poor simple Hamish is not the man she pictures as her romantic hero.
The Australian setting gives the film a different dynamic to your standard American or English rom-com, with outback earthy characters who are easily relatable and loveable. It was quite a simple little story, but still very enjoyable.
Rating: 6.4/10
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