The Black Balloon

The Black Balloon (2008)

Sometimes it's hard to be the odd one in.

TMDb

6.5

08/03/2008 • 1h 37m
original-title

The Black Balloon

status

Released

production-companies

Black Balloon Productions

Icon Entertainment International

Icon Productions

original-language

English

budget

$5,000,000

revenue

$5,000,000

Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle?

director
production-countries

Australia

spoken-languages

English

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