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Posted: 2012-08-15T15:49:11+10:00 In:

– A romp through family life and black-sheepedness in small town Tasmania in the 1980s. Based on the bestselling novel by DJ Connell

JULIAN CORKLE IS A FILTHY LIAR

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    3 Reviews

    1. Logliner

      Some filmmakers have the bad habit of including references to ‘bestselling’ novels – even if they are not really.
      I don’t know how ‘bestselling’ this book was but I have never heard of it. In any case, filmgoers don’t care. If you have to rely on book readers only, your movie will fail. Every year, you can count the exceptions on one hand. Worldwide. We all know that ‘bestselling’ is a flexible notion. If an author makes it into any Top 10 list, they call themselves ‘bestselling’, even if it means they sold 3,000 copies. Big deal for a novel, not so for a movie audience.

      Finally, the logline doesn’t give us anything except for the setting – and we know that Tasmania has families and sheep.

      In other words, this is NOT a logline. For anyone other than those who know the book, there is NOTHING selling about it.

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    2. What Karel said. And is “black-sheepedness” even a word?

      I’m guessing here that your protag is the black sheep of the family? So, he returns home (what forces him to go back home?) and has to navigate the choppy waters of family dynamics. And then what?

      There’s a reason this page exists: https://loglines.org/howto/

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    3. To the best of my knowledge Tasmania is an island state of Australian not a town. Does the black sheep of the family come home and romp through the family. Who is doing the romping and what does that have to do with the black sheep. This log line leaves me guessing what the story is about and my guess is that I wouldn?t go see this film.

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