The Straits

2012

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  • 1
7.1| 0h30m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 02 February 2012 Ended
Producted By: Matchbox Pictures
Country: Australia
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/thestraits/
Synopsis

Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.

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Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
anthonybodin-67112 The straights catches the mood of fnq beautifully and captures the frontier mood. Worth a look
Man99204 I saw this program listed on Netflix. I knew nothing about it. Brian Cox was the only actor in the series I had ever heard of.I have watched the first ten episodes - and was mesmerized. It is one of most well scripted series I have seen in longer than I can remember.In this type of program, the script drives everything else - and it is very well done. The ensemble cast is totally believable from start to finish. They sell the script in a completely convincing way.Another great perk is that this series is filmed in Queensland Australia,. Each episode is brim full of incredibly beautiful scenery and the local flavor and culture.
gabiorganics2013 I started watching this show on Hulu without knowing anything about the show. The acting is fantastic! The story lines are compelling and believable for that sort of gangster lifestyle. The scenery is lovely especially the views from the airplane which shows all the little islands off the coast of Australia with the aqua colored waters. The actors were very well chosen for this show. It seems to me they use locals as extras who are sooo believable to their rough characters. This show is definitely a winner and I hope they are filming a second season as they can't leave us with such curiosity for more. Go to Hulu and watch the entire first season it's worth it!!
Chloe Hughes Kitty (Rena Owen) and Harry (Brian Cox) couldn't have children so they adopted Marou (Jimi Bani), Noel (Aaron Fa'aoso) and Sissi (Suzannah Bayes-Morton) from her extended family and Gary (Firass Dirani) from Harry's family. Instead of making the eldest -Noel- in charge of the family which is Kitty's cultural way, Harry decides to put each of his sons pitted against each other to see who is worthy of taking over Harry's role when he retires of the business which is running their family legal business the croc farm and their gravel business. Also there's the shady illegal business which includes smuggling guns and wildlife out and drugs into Australia. There is similarities to Shakespeare's Macbeth with second adopted son Marou and his social climbing ambitious wife Lola (Emma Lung) who advices him that he is worthy of taking over Harry's role.

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