![]() ![]() It features a cast of finely drawn teenagers and grown-ups, all searching for their own kind of truth. Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel is wise and beautiful. He needs every ounce of Charlie’s bookish brain to help solve this awful mystery before the town turns on Jasper. Jasper has stumbled upon a terrible crime in the scrub nearby, and he knows he’s the first suspect. But when sixteen-year-old, constantly in-trouble Jasper Jones appears at his window one night, Charlie’s out of his depth. Overseas, war is raging in Vietnam, civil rights marchers are on the streets, and women’s liberation is stirring, but at home in Corrigan Charlie Bucktin dreams of writing the great Australian novel.Ĭharlie’s fourteen and smart. ![]() ![]() It’s summer 1965 in a small, hot town in Western Australia. ![]()
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