CHARLIE AND BOOTS

Charlie & Boots is a 2009 Australian film starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson. It had the best opening weekend for any Australian film in 2009 when it was released on Father's day.[1] The film features many small towns in country Australia. It also has a cameo by Reg Evans, who died in the 2009 Victorian bushfires before the film was released, and the film is dedicated to the victims of the fires.[2]

Shane Jacobson plays the son who takes his father (Paul Hogan) on a trip to fish on the northernmost tip of Australia because of something the father told him when he was a kid. Although he probably wasn't serious and can't remember it the son decides to carry it out. They travel on a road trip from Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula in a HJ Holden Kingswood, passing through towns like Tamworth. The film starts with the death of Gracie, Mother to boots, and to Charlie, she was his Gracie, his wife. After the death of Gracie, Boots goes to visit Charlie on the family farm, finding him locked away in the house in the dark, curtains drawn. Boots looks at a calendar on the wall with a picture of Cape York and remembers his Dad promising to take him fishing off the northern most tip of Australia. As the trip starts out, Boots and Charlie's relationship seems a little tense but as the days pass they begin to rekindle their father-son relationship.