The richly layered screenplay by Silvey and Shaun Grant (“The Snowtown Murders”) opens with teenage Charlie Bucktin (Miller) receiving a late-night plea for help from the title character (McGrath), an ...

A pivotal point in the Australian drama “Jasper Jones” arrives when Toni Collette’s eyes become beach balls and words of frustration fly as her character, Ruth Bucktin, rips into her husband for going ...

"We don't know who's out there!" The first trailer has debuted for an Australian coming-of-age drama titled Jasper Jones, adapted from Craig Silvey’s bestselling Australian novel of the same name. The ...

Adapted from Craig Silvey's bestselling Australian novel and featuring a stellar cast, including Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie, and Aaron McGrath, Jasper Jones is ...

‘Jasper Jones’ to have its North America premiere as closing night film at the Museum of the Moving Image’s tribute to Film Movement New York-based Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to “Jasper ...

The first thing that struck me while reading Jasper Jones was the authenticity of the dialogue. Charlie and his friend Jeffery speak in a way that is so redolent of my own 13-year old son’s ...

Presented with artful simplicity, the multilayered JASPER JONES is presented for a new generation of high school students at Bondi Pavillion Theatre. Under Nicholas Christo's direction, Kate Mulvany's ...

Toni Collette’s desperately unhappy housewife, Hugo Weaving’s grizzled hermit, Angourie Rice’s teenage love interest ... everyone has a secret in the small Australian town where Charlie Bucktin (Levi ...

Australian author Silvey wears his influences (notably To Kill a Mockingbird) a little too obviously on his sleeve in a novel about crime, race, and growing up in a 1960s Australian mining town.

New York-based Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to “Jasper Jones,” hailed by Variety as the best film to date by Australia’s Rachel Perkins (“Bran Neu Dae”) and a “beautifully composed portrait ...