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Posted: 4/5/2012
In Australian slang, "shiralee" means "burden." It also describes how itinerant laborer "Mac" Macauley (Bryan Brown, Gorillas in the Mist, Cocktail) thinks of his nine-year-old daughter, Buster (Rebecca Smart, Blackrock). Proud and stubborn, Mac ekes out a living--sometimes with his fists--on the dusty roads of 1940s and '50s outback, with Buster in tow. Together they befriend a number of colorful characters and Lily (Noni Hazelhurst, Little Fish), a lovely rancher as maddeningly willful as Mac. At time grudgingly, Mac and Buster forge a father-daughter bond that hunger and hardship cannot break.