Category: Movies → Charlie And Boots [2009] DVDRip

It’s always good to see PAUL HOGAN return to our screens, he is, after all, an Australian icon. He’s teamed up with SHANE JACOBSON to play father and son, Charlie & Boots. They’re not actually the best of friends, there’s been some falling out over the years, but when Charlie’s wife Grace dies this dairy farmer from Warrnambool loses it. He just sits around the house, stunned at his loss.

Boots, concerned about his father, decides to take him on a trip they’d talked about but never done... go fishing at the northernmost part of Australia - Cape York.

Initially distant, the trip seems to wean Charlie out of his trenchant melancholy. He’s not above wanting to set Boots up with a girl along the way.

Co-written and directed by Dean Murphy, CHARLIE & BOOTS is more like a home movie than a feature film, but it’s a very endearing one. We get to travel the distance, through the backblocks of Victoria and New South Wales. Very nourishing.

PAUL HOGAN seems more relaxed in this film, SHANE JACOBSON’S natural presence on screen works well for both of them.

There are parts that are very funny, I love the origin of Boots’ name, but this is less an outright comedy than a genial road trip that embraces not only the two travellers but some very typical Aussie folk along the way.