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Broken Hill is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 11 september 2009 with Alexa Vega
Broken Hill (2009)
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Add to a movie listBroken Hill is a 2009 drama film directed and written by Dagen Merrill, and stars Luke Arnold, Alexa Vega, and, in a supporting role, Timothy Hutton.
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Tommy (Arnold), a gifted teenage composer, dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Unfortunately, a good band is hard to find in the middle of the Australian Outback—until an incident involving flying watermelons leads him to a group of talented prison inmates.Actors
Alexa Vega
(Kat Rogers)
Timothy Hutton
(George McAlpine)
Luke Arnold
(Tommy McAlpine)
Rhys Wakefield
(Scott Price)
George Kapiniaris
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