Bondi Hipster Christiaan Van Vuuren’s outback romp about a nogoodnik St Nick is spirited and sweet in a backhanded way
We could all do with some extra
Christmas cheer this year, and who better to provide it then a two-bit criminal pretending to be Santa? Lots of people, of course, but the good folk on a drought-stricken farm in the warm, playful, funny festive film A Sunburnt Christmas understand more than most that beggars can’t be choosers. They’ll take what they can get – which happens to be an on-the-run crook named Daryl who knows a big bag of stolen cash is buried somewhere on their property, and recruits the family’s two youngest kids – Daisy (Lena Nankivell) and Tom (Eadan McGuinness) – to help him find it by maintaining the ruse that he is Santa Claus.
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