Matching Jack

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Matching Jack

2010

1h 38m

Drama

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A married woman's life turns upside down after she meets an Irish sailor.

Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

Having begun as a well-meaning but uneven mix of medical melodrama and fraught love story with whimsical accessories, it finally locates its heartbeat.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 20, 2010

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

If Matching Jack were a telemovie, I'd be tempted to switch off.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 19, 2010

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

There's a lot to appreciate in a film which is really about the very basics -- life, love and death.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 11, 2010

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David Michael Brown

Empire Magazine Australasia

Beautifully played and powerfully moving, despite the sugary clichs.

Rated: 3

Aug 22, 2010

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Jason Di Rosso

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Lynne Renew and David Parker's script is based on a wonderful premise, but the resulting film is uneven, straddling adult drama and family-friendly tear-jerker without doing either well.

Aug 20, 2010

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Julie Rigg

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

It's melodrama, but powerful, with insights into the way cancer changes lives. I howled. Take Kleenex.

Aug 20, 2010

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A tearjerker for a Thursday night......

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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A bit sentimental but the two child actors make this tearful and honest. It is their relationship and friendship which makes this good and the fact Kodi Smit-McPhee is a superb young actor. His underplay of the dying character is worth watching.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Despite its grim subject, the movie sends a positive message.....Melbourne serves as a backdrop to the movie which is photograph in all of its beauty ...credible performances from Jacinda and the two children...

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Lovely movie, but quite sad at the same time. I really sobbed with Finn's passing.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Tear jerker romance involving childhood leukemia, infidelity, and an Irish sailor in Australia. It would never have worked but for the casting of Nesbitt.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Great actors. Ok minus movie. The ending is cliche.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Nadia Tass

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Jacinda Barrett

Marissa

Richard Roxburgh

David

James Nesbitt

Connor

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Finn

Yvonne Strahovski

Veronica

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Synopsis

A married woman's life turns upside down after she meets an Irish sailor.

Director: Nadia Tass
Producer: Richard Keddie, David Parker, Nadia Tass
Screenwriter: David Parker, Lynne Renew
Production Co: Cascade Films, Screen Australia, Film Victoria
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 23, 2017
Runtime: 1h 38m