Based On Colin Thiele’s novel of the same name, Blue Fin Was the SAFC’s follow up to its successful family film Storm Boy.
Greg Rowe, who starred in Storm Boy, returns to play eleven year old “Snook”, (thin and long like the fish) who wants to be a tuna fisherman like his father Pascoe (Hardy Kruger),while his long-suffering mother (Elsepth Ballantyne) watches him struggle for his father’s acceptance.
But Pascoe is having a period of bad luck, and vents his frustrations on his son, believing he isn’t up to the business of becoming a professional fisherman.
Disaster strikes the close-knit fishing community when a boat is lost at sea, and Snook must comfort his sister Ruth (Liddy Clark) when her boyfriend Sam (john Jarratt) is one of the victims.
The town’s Miss tuna competition relieves the gloom, but then it’s the turn of Pascoe to suffer when his boat, Blue Fin, is badly damaged by a gigantic water spout. The rest of the is lost overboard, leaving only Pascoe, badly injured in his bunk on the boat and his son Snook, faced with the challenge of single-handedly bringing the boat back to port.
Greg Rowe, who starred in Storm Boy, returns to play eleven year old “Snook”, (thin and long like the fish) who wants to be a tuna fisherman like his father Pascoe (Hardy Kruger),while his long-suffering mother (Elsepth Ballantyne) watches him struggle for his father’s acceptance.
But Pascoe is having a period of bad luck, and vents his frustrations on his son, believing he isn’t up to the business of becoming a professional fisherman.
Disaster strikes the close-knit fishing community when a boat is lost at sea, and Snook must comfort his sister Ruth (Liddy Clark) when her boyfriend Sam (john Jarratt) is one of the victims.
The town’s Miss tuna competition relieves the gloom, but then it’s the turn of Pascoe to suffer when his boat, Blue Fin, is badly damaged by a gigantic water spout. The rest of the is lost overboard, leaving only Pascoe, badly injured in his bunk on the boat and his son Snook, faced with the challenge of single-handedly bringing the boat back to port.