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Paper Planes (U)
Directed by Robert Connolly
4/5
Three cheers for co-writer director Robert Connolly for a charming, funny children’s adventure designed to delight uncynical youngsters and, happily, prove a pleasure for all too frequently unkindly “entertained” accompanying adults.
The 12-year-old hero Dylan, sweetly and convincingly played by Ed Oxenbould, lives in rural New South Wales with his father Jack (Sam Worthington) who, having lost his wife in a car accident five months previously, is traumatised, doesn’t work and simply sleeps or watches TV.
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