The Year My Voice Broke 1987

The Year My Voice Broke 1987
1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 15 October 1987 (Australia)

Storyline:

In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved.

User review:

The Year My Voice Broke is basically about three young kids growing up in a small, desolate town in Australia during the 1960s. The main character and narrator is Danny. His childhood friend is Frey, who also happens to be his first real love, although she doesn’t know exactly how much he loves her–at least not at first. So to speak, Frey is like the only girl who he trusts and who he understands. But, Frey loves the reckless outlaw, Trevor.

The movie reminds me a lot of the 1986 movie, Lucas, which starred a very young Corey Haim. Danny is like Lucas in that he is in love with his childhood friend, the only girl who seems to understand and appreciate him. Freya compares to Maggie because she finds herself falling in love with another. And Trevor is like Cappie. But ‘The Year My Voice Broke’ deals with much more adult situations than simply being a matter of ‘puppy love,’ and thus some of the results are tragic.

Nonetheless, it is a movie worth seeing.

Director: John Duigan
Writer: John Duigan
Stars: Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn
Country of origin: Australia
Language: English
Also known as: Das Jahr meiner ersten Liebe
Filming locations: Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia