22-448: Brand New Day or A Brand New Day may refer to: Music [ edit ] Brand New Day , the American title for the 1990 Australian musical Bran Nue Dae Albums [ edit ] Brand New Day (Swollen Members album) , 2014 Brand New Day (Ricki-Lee Coulter album) , or the title song Brand New Day (Sting album) , or
44-484: A 2009 film starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day , a 2019 Japanese animated film " Brand New Day ", the eleventh episode of the seventh season of the American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Brand New Day . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
66-454: A daffy, garish energy that's reflected in brisk pacing and up-tempo tunes". On director Perkins, he stated "Visually, Perkins is not a natural fit for this material", comparing it to her 1998 feature Radiance , but "here she enthusiastically takes to the moments of farce and productions numbers." Mathieson added that the "frames feel cluttered, with an occasional echo of the amped-up musical melodrama" but concluded approvingly that Bran Nue Dae
88-434: A desert road when a hung-over Roxanne emerges from the back seat, startling everyone. While smoking some pot, they are discovered by police and arrested, despite Annie's attempts at stopping the police from arresting them. At the police station, Slippery reveals that his real name is Wolfgang Benedictus. The police then put them in a jail cell for a night. They are released next morning, and drive on to Broome, where they go to
110-560: A gross of $ 1.6 million, $ 3.7 million in its first two weeks and eventually grossing more than $ 7.5 million. The film "... has since become one of the Top 50 Australian films of all time at the local box office." The film received generally mixed reviews. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 56% of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 61 reviews with an average score of 5.9/10. The website's critical consensus is: "It's original and high-spirited, but Bran Nue Dae
132-976: Is Tadpole's son. Bran Nue Dae premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival on its closing night on 8 August 2009. The film made its international debut at the Toronto International Film Festival at the Scotiabank Theatre on 12 September 2009. It was also among the lineup of out-of-competition films to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, and screened at the Antipodean Film Festival in Saint Tropez , France, in October 2010. The film made its official theatrical premiere at
154-581: Is also uneven and sometimes overly kitschy." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Dennis Harvey of Variety said "It retains that dated once-almost-hip look – like Up with People ", but it contained "blandly stereotypical characters in a trite road-trip narrative" and in regards to younger audiences, claimed "There's scant real dancing, mostly forgettable, showtune-type songs and no ethnic authenticity." Craig Mathieson of SBS Films commented that " Bran Nue Dae has
176-644: The Melbourne International Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Film. It was theatrically released in Australia on 14 January 2010. It debuted with $ 2.5 million in its first week, solidifying it as a box office hit. It went on to gross over $ 7 million, making it one of the most successful Australian films of all time. Bran Nue Dae (film) Bran Nue Dae is a 2009 Australian musical comedy-drama film directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins and Reg Cribb . A feature film adaptation of
198-670: The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards in 1990. The following year the published script and score won the Special Award in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards . Theatre critic Katharine Brisbane wrote in 1999: Bran Nue Dae in 1989 was a turning point in the short history of Aboriginal writing for the theatre. Twenty years of evolution: in writers, political activists, actors, dancers, singers and song-writers, preceded it. Gail Mabo performed in
220-502: The Sydney run of the musical in 1991. A 1991 television documentary Bran Nue Dae tells the story of the creation of the musical. The musical was revived for an Australian national tour in 2020. The musical has been turned into a feature film of the same title , directed by Rachel Perkins starring Ernie Dingo , Geoffrey Rush , Jessica Mauboy , Missy Higgins , Deborah Mailman , Magda Szubanski and Dan Sultan . It premiered at
242-505: The 1990 stage musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi , the film tells the story of the coming of age of an Aboriginal Australian teenager on a road trip in the late 1960s. In Broome in 1969, Willie Johnson is having trouble wooing his girl Rosie, who ends up with a bandleader named Lester. His mother Theresa sends him back to boarding school in Perth to continue his education for the priesthood. One night, he and several others steal food from
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#1732855576374264-656: The Sun Pictures theatre in Broome , Western Australia on 8 December 2009, where the stars of the film walked a "red dirt" carpet. In the lead up to the premiere on the day, stars of the film Mauboy, Sultan, Higgins, and Dingo put on a public performance with the Kuckles band in Broome's Chinatown. The film was theatrically released in Australia on 14 January 2010 and had an opening weekend rank of No. 6, averaging $ 6,977 at 231 screens for
286-452: The bar where Rosie is performing. Willie tries to win her back, but ends up in a fight with Lester, only to be disrupted by a church temperance march , which invites everyone to the beach to testify. Willie tells Rosie he loves her, and they kiss. At the beach, Willie's mother reveals that she had a son to another man, who turns out to be Father Benedictus. Wolfgang is their son. Tadpole is spotted by Willie's mother, and she tells Willie that he
308-407: The college kitchen but are caught. Willie admits to being the thief, but runs away before he can be punished. He spends the night on the streets of Perth before meeting up with 'Uncle' Tadpole, who offers to help him get home. They go to Fremantle , where Tadpole allows himself to be run over by a Kombi van , hoping that the two hippies inside will help him. Not realising how far it will be to Broome,
330-617: The hippies, 'Slippery' the German and Annie, his girlfriend, agree to drive them. Father Benedictus, head of the college, has seen Willie's potential and determines to locate him; through Tadpole's homeless friends, he learns that Willie is heading to Broome. The travellers drive north, stopping at a roadhouse where Willie meets the tarty "Roadhouse Betty". Tadpole steals some food, a bottle of wine, and an audio tape, nearly causing them to get shot by Betty, but they manage to escape. Slippery becomes disillusioned, and leaves Willie and Tadpole behind in
352-513: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brand_New_Day&oldid=1153543060 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bran Nue Dae Bran Nue Dae is a 1990 musical set in Broome, Western Australia , that tells stories and of issues relating to Indigenous Australians . It
374-554: The middle of nowhere; Tadpole curses the hippies by pointing a bone , and the van promptly breaks down. Willie then gets a ride with a passing truck carrying the members of a football team. They end up in Port Hedland where he meets flirty Roxanne, who takes him to the 'condom tree' and offers to 'show him a good time', but her boyfriend turns up and a fight ensues. Willie is rescued by Tadpole, who says that all young men end up there at some point. The next morning, they are driving along
396-826: The musical The Wiz "A Brand New Day" (BTS and Zara Larsson song) "Brand New Day", by 10cc from The Original Soundtrack "Brand New Day", by Aice "Brand New Day" by Alex Lloyd , 2006 "Brand New Day", by Babymetal from Metal Galaxy "Brand New Day", by Bryan Adams from Get Up "Brand New Day", by Demi Lovato from The Final Jam "Brand New Day", by Dizzee Rascal from Boy in da Corner "Brand New Day", by Eurythmics from Savage "Brand New Day", by Fireflight from Unbreakable "Brand New Day", by Forty Foot Echo from Forty Foot Echo "Brand New Day", by Joshua Radin from Simple Times "Brand New Day", by Miguel Migs from Colorful You "Brand New Day", by No Doubt from No Doubt "Brand New Day", by Ryan Star from
418-497: The television show Lie to Me "Brand New Day", by Scoopers from Sakura Gakuin 2010 Nendo: Message "Brand New Day", from the film Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog "A Brand New Day", from the video game The Jungle Book Groove Party Other media [ edit ] Spider-Man: Brand New Day , a 2008 comic book storyline Brand New Day , the American title for the 2009 Australian musical film Bran Nue Dae Love Happens (working title: Brand New Day ),
440-545: The title song, 1999 Brand New Day (The Watchmen album) Brand New Day (Blood, Sweat & Tears album) Brand New Day (The Mavericks) A Brand New Day (album) , by Vanessa Bell Armstrong A Brand New Day , by Lime A Brand New Day , by Frankie Laine , or the title song Songs [ edit ] "Brand New Day" (Massari song) , 2012 "Brand New Day" (Sting song) "Brand New Day" (Van Morrison song) , 1970 "Brand New Day" (Kodaline song) , 2013 "A Brand New Day" ( The Wiz song) , from
462-426: Was similar to the 1982 Australian musical film Starstruck in that it "carries the day with energy and self-belief." The Age ' s Philippa Hawker praised the cast, stating Dingo was "terrific as Uncle Tadpole", for Rush who "brings an idiosyncratic physical energy and an extravagant German accent to the role" and newcomer Jessica Mauboy brought "sweetness and confidence to the role of Rosie". The following
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#1732855576374484-573: Was written by Jimmy Chi and his band Kuckles and friends, and was the first Aboriginal Australian musical. The name is a phonetic representation of "Brand New Day". The musical was originally directed by Andrew Ross and choreographed by Michael Leslie . It premiered at the Octagon Theatre in February–March 1990 as part of the Festival of Perth , and later toured nationally. The musical won
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