Sebastian and the Sparrow

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| director = Scott Hicks

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| starring = Jeremy Angerson
Alexander Bainbridge
Elizabeth Alexander
Robert Coleby

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| released = {{Film date|1988}}

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| country = Australia

| language = English

| budget = A$700,000"Production Barometer", Cinema Papers, May 1988 p46

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Sebastian and the Sparrow is a 1988 Australian film directed by Scott Hicks.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p355-356 Hicks says he wanted to make the film one he could watch with his teenage son:

It was a kind of junior buddy movie with the theme of two people who envied each other's life. To Sebastian, Sparrow has the perfect life: nobody's on his back, he can do what he likes. It looks like glorious freedom. But to Sparrow the constraints of that life are very real. There is Sebastian with the luxury of a home, a family and a very well-to-do existence which was Nirvana to him. I love the way those thoughts could jostle together.[http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=Scott+Hicks&bl "Interview with Scott Hicks", Signet, 5 August 1996, 7 September 1996] accessed 18 November 2012