After playing overseas for 10 years, disgraced football star Tom Dunn returns to face the scandal that ripped his town apart, at the same time clear his name and reignite an old flame.
What's meant to be ploddingly glum drama ostensibly about Aussie Rules footy proves to be a humourless study of forgiveness, redemption and so forth, with plenty of agonising along the way.
sbs.com.au
February 20, 2013
Australian footy-themed melodrama fumbles, kicks few goals.
This story of AFL, mateship and sex scandal is let down by a clunky screenplay and some misguided morality despite the presence of Jack Thompson and an enthusiastic cast of talented young Australian actors.
