The New Boy

IMDb link: 18180926
IMDb rating: 5.7 (1,790 votes)
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, History
Director: Wayne Blair, Warwick Thornton
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Aswan Reid, Nathan Lawson, Peter Jupiter, Kit Fortune and others

Release date: 30 May 2025
Release year: 2023
Runtime: 116 minutes
Country: Australia
Keywords: 9 year old, little boy, 1940s, monastery, nun, australia, bully, orphan, 20th century, child

Plot:

Set in 1940s Australia, "The New Boy" is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately-balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

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