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As a secondary school teacher I am glad to finally have a movie that is suitable for my classes. It is the well-paced and sensitively-handled story of Brenda and her search into the pasft or the truth tof her identity and what happened when she was young. It began with snippets of memories of a white sister and the bond they shared, that spurred her on.

I have so much respect for the dignity her birth parents demonstrated and the love shown her by her adoptive parents. The lasting impact of the Stolen Generation on families is so underestimated. I highly recommend this movie. It is one that can be shown in classrooms and is engaging from start to finish.

Given the quirky nature of the topic, I had hoped for something along the lines of Jack Black meets Flight of the Concords. Instead, Goldberg and Rogen handed the script writing over to a bunch of sweaty 14 year old boys sitting in a locker room that failed English class. Made worse was the fact that for some strange reason, Seth's character is a Jim Carey clone. Ouch! The synopsis of the film is great, but clunky handling of the story line, poor acting, limited vocabulary range has shot this movie down in a suicide mission. Seth and Rogen have shown us what NOT to do with a good movie plot. Kim Jong-Un, you can put your rockets away, I would get Sony to do the firing here.