Backbencher

In Australian Rules, Gary Black lives in South Australia and plays football. His friends and family call him Blacky. Blacky is not like his other family members, he enjoys reading and expanding his vocabulary, which his mother helps him with. Blacky's dad is a drunk, and everyone but the oldest boy like to avoid him as much as they can. Since Blacky never went to his dad for anything, he would go to his neighbor Darcy and talk to him about things that he was having problems with. He lives in a small town where racism is a given. Most of the boys on the football team are from an adjacent Aboriginal township. The Aboriginal Township is known as "the Mish". One of Blacky's best friends is Dumby Red, and Dumby is a natural at playing football. Dumby is from "the Mish" just like all the other players on the team. The Grand Final is coming up, and one of the star players is arrested, so the coach puts Blacky in his place on the field. Blacky starts to fall in love with Dumby's sister, Clarence, but this isn't taken very well by the community of the small town. Interracial relationships were not taken very well in the town. The Grand Final was a very good game, and the team played quite well.

The code of football called Australian Rules is a style invented in Melbourne in the late 1850s and codified in 1859 making it the oldest code of football in the world.

Ok, so I don't think that I have ever heard so much swearing as I did in this movie. One of Blacky's friends, all he does is swear every other word. I really like the movie except for the fact that when the people talked, their lips didn’t match up with the words that they spoke. It got a little annoying toward the middle of the movie. Darcy was always seen dealing with maggots or with pig guts or something disgusting like that, and it is kind of nasty, but it kept it interesting to see what he would have the next time you saw Darcy. This makes sense since he is in the bait business, since the town is a fishing town. Besides for the swearing, which got better towards the middle, this movie was really good. It was interesting to see them play footie. There is always the one team that gets their butts handed to them in the first half. It was also pretty sweet to see a fight break out during the game, anytime there is a fight during the game it makes the movie. This is a good movie to watch to see the team working as one and coming back and making things happen.