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Walk the talk

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Movie propaganda

Joey (Salvatore Coco) dreams of being successful. His girlfriend Bonita (Sacha Horler), who was left paraplegic after a car accident, dreams of walking again. When Joey meets Nikki Raye (Nikki Bennett), who dreams of being a singer, at a motivational course, he becomes obsessed with helping Nikki achieve her dream. He borrows money from Bonita's compensation payout to set himself up in business as her management and has Bonita work in the office while he tries anything to get Nikki noticed... even a Fairley Arrow stunt!

Also starring Carter Edwards as Marty Raye, Robert Coleby as Pastor Bob, Skye Wansey as Barbara Jacobs-Alsop, John Burgess as Rex Hanna, Jon A English as Phil Wehner, Nicky Wendt as Linda Mundell, David Franklin as Trevor Whitney and Bille Brown as Barry. Written and directed by Shirley Barrett.

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Studios and distributors:

DreamWorks

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Uh... nothing?

The driving force of Walk the talk is Joey's lack of sanity. If the film was about Joey's lack of sanity then it would be pretty good, unfortunately it isn't. What, then, is it about? Well, it's kind of about a guy and a girl and another girl and some big time ideas in a trashy, plastic kind of urban environment. Kind of like Snake eyes without the killing, hitting, shooting or other eye-catching filmic elements.

Salvatore is stuck inside a wishy washy character with no identity but a lot of talk. Sacha is devoutly honest throughout the whole thing, an actor who devours every role she plays. Nikki is a great burnout. The biggest rounds of applause go to Carter as Nikki's never-was lounge singer father who has no depth whatsoever and John as the arsehole in charge of entertainment at the casino. Talk about fake people in a fake world. Choice!

Shirley has created a washed out, Queensland feel which is great, but who ever wants to live in Queensland? As a 3 minute skit on The panel, it could be really funny but as a 100 minute drama it drags. Not the drag queen kind of drag, either, that would be much more interesting.

All up, Walk the talk is not particularly fascinating film that doesn't go very far and takes a while to get there. Watch Yolngu boy instead.