What is The Black Balloon?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Black Balloon''''' is a 2008 [[Australia]]n [[drama movie]] about an [[unusual]] [[suburb]]an family in [[Sydney]] in the early 1990s. It was [[movie director|directed]] by [[Elissa Down]] and [[screenwriter|written]] by Down and [[Jimmy Jack]]. It stars [[Rhys Wakefield]] as 15 year old Thomas Mollison, [[Luke Ford]] as his slightly older brother Charlie, [[Toni Collette]] as his [[pregnant]] mother Maggie and [[Erik Thomson]] as his father Simon, who is in the [[army]]. Charlie is [[mentally retarded]], [[severe]]ly [[autism|autistic]], [[muteness|unable to speak]], [[hyperactive]], [[overemotional]] and has [[outburst]]s of [[inappropriate]], sometimes [[destructive]], [[behaviour]]. [[Gemma Ward]] plays Thomas' [[girlfriend]] Jackie Masters. == Other websites == *{{imdb title|0865297}} {{movie-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Black Balloon}} [[Category:2000s coming-of-age movies]] [[Category:2008 romantic drama movies]] [[Category:2000s teen drama movies]] [[Category:2000s teen romance movies]] [[Category:Australian drama movies]] [[Category:Australian romance movies]] [[Category:Autism in fiction]] [[Category:Coming-of-age drama movies]] [[Category:Coming-of-age romance movies]] [[Category:2000s English-language movies]] [[Category:Movies about dysfunctional families]] [[Category:Movies about suburbia]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1990s]] [[Category:Sydney]] [[Category:Movies about autism]]