Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)
1h 28m
Running Time
December 12, 1988Release Date
Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)
1h 28m
Running Time
December 12, 1988Release Date
Plot.
The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.
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Cast & Crew.
Alexander Bainbridge
Sebastian
Jeremy Angerson
Sparrow
Robert Coleby
Peter Thornbury
Elizabeth Alexander
Jenny Thornbury
John Clayton
Country Cop
Scott Hicks
Director
Scott Hicks
Director
Vincent Gil
Streetworker (Mick)
Details.
Release DateDecember 12, 1988
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Wiki.
Sebastian and the Sparrow is a 1988 Australian film directed by Scott Hicks. Hicks says he wanted to make the film one he could watch with his teenage son:
It was a kind of junior buddy movie with the theme of two people who envied each other's life. To Sebastian, Sparrow has the perfect life: nobody's on his back, he can do what he likes. It looks like glorious freedom. But to Sparrow the constraints of that life are very real. There is Sebastian with the luxury of a home, a family and a very well-to-do existence which was Nirvana to him. I love the way those thoughts could jostle together.