Director Tim Ferguson & Marc Gracie
Staring Xavier Samuel, Morgan Griffin, Lincoln Lewis & Travis Jeffery
Rated M
Score 3/6

Billy and Lucy have grown up together in a small, close-knit Australian country town, where they form one of the town’s most formidable Ute driving teams. When Billy takes one risky car stunt too far, Lucy declares she is moving to the city – sending Billy into a spin. Amid the mayhem of the town’s annual “Bachelors and Spinsters” party, Billy only has one night to wake up to his true feelings for his best friend – or lose her forever.

If I was a little more organized at the time, I might have caught this one at the cinema. Though Australian cinema needs as much support as possible from the viewing public because there is a tendency for Australian movies to have a blink and you’ll miss it cinematic run, Spin Out really is not the type of movie that NEEDS to be seen on the biggest screen possible.
on the face of it Spun out is a beautiful movie doing its best to showcase a part of the Australian countryside, though plot-wise it really doesn’t bring anything that hasn’t been seen before to the table Though I would possible argue that given the fact that a Bachelors and Spinsters beer drinking record is one of the movie’s plot points Spin Out has little or no regards for its kidneys and possible ran into the realm of David Boon (for those of you who might not know David Boon was an Australian Cricketer who is said to have set a beer drinking record on a flight between Australia and England in 1989). Though I suppose if you take this level of alcoholism as a plot point it would be easy to make comparisons to Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan’s 1998 movie Can’t Hardly Wait.
There were plenty of unfamiliar faces in this one though I suppose the stand out performance for this movie was Travis Jeffery. While I was Jeffery on screen I couldn’t help but make comparisons between him and Samuel Johnson.