Overview - The New Boy

Overview

In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed. However, the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not gel with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy, in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

Cast

• Name: Cate Blanchett

  Character: Sister Eileen

  Popularity: 3.1967

  

• Name: Deborah Mailman

  Character: Sister Mum

  Popularity: 0.5369

  

• Name: Wayne Blair

  Character: George

  Popularity: 0.6524

  

• Name: Aswan Reid

  Character: New Boy

  Popularity: 0.2646

  

• Name: Kenneth Radley

  Character: Policeman

  Popularity: 0.6598

  

• Name: Shane Mckenzie Brady

  Character: Michael

  Popularity: 0.0492

  

• Name: Tyrique Brady

  Character: Matthew

  Popularity: 0.0457

  

• Name: Laiken Woolmington

  Character: David

  Popularity: 0.0214