WEST OF SUNSHINE (2017)
West of Sunshine is an independent drama from Australia about deadbeat dads and children who aren’t getting the right sort of attention from their parents. The sort of thing that sadly goes on in real life every day. Unfortunately for the central father and son duo they’re also in the middle of an increasingly dire situation that involves loan sharks and drug deals. Which sadly can also be a real situation. But this soon creates two disparate story threads. Does the whimsical family drama and the gritty gambling debt storyline come together to form a cohesive narrative? It’s more successful than you might think. But there are times in which the style of these two disparate genres begin to clash with one another.
