The Year My Voice Broke

The Year My Voice Broke
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Directed by	John Duigan
Written by	John Duigan
Produced by	Terry Hayes George Miller Doug Mitchell
Starring	Noah Taylor Loene Carmen Ben Mendelsohn
Cinematography	Geoff Burton
Edited by	Neil Thumpston
Production company	Kennedy Miller
Distributed by	Hoyts Distribution
Release date	17 October 1987 (1987-10-17)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	$850,000[1]
Box office	A$1,513,000 (Australia)

The Year My Voice Broke is a 1987 Australian coming of age drama film written and directed by John Duigan and starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen and Ben Mendelsohn. Set in 1962 in the rural Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, it was the first in a projected trilogy of films centred on the experiences of an awkward Australian boy, based on the childhood of writer/director John Duigan. The film itself is a series of interconnected segments narrated by Danny who recollects how he and his best friend Freya grew apart over the course of one year. Although the trilogy never came to fruition, it was followed by a 1991 sequel, Flirting. The film was the recipient of the 1987 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, a prize which Flirting also won in 1990.