- Country: Australia
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 2001-06-03
- Director: Ken Cameron
- Writers: John Alsop , Sue Smith , George Johnston
- Language: English
- Stars: Matt Day , Simon Lyndon , Claudia Karvan , William McInnes , Angie Milliken , Ellouise Rothwell , Robert Menzies , Raelee Hill , Felix Williamson , Jack Thompson
- Runtime: 182 min
- Awards: 5 wins & 5 nominations
- AKA: My Brother Jack , My Brother Jack (Australia) , Meu Irmão Jack (Brazil)
- Plot: A boy looks up to his big brother, Jack, who is his hero and is someone that he is not - brave, noble and has the courage to stand up to their father. When their father returns from the battlefields of France to his family, he sends his younger son to an apprenticeship in a jam factory designing the labels. There, his boss sends him off to art school, but his real passion is writing. He began to send small stories into the newspaper. While the boy cannot draw, he discovers that he has a talent for writing. The depression sets in. The older son, Jack, who had escaped to the country returns with a girl suffering double pneumonia. Worst of all she is a Catholic and the father hates Catholics. The phrase Susso kids: the outbreak of World war II. Brother Jack rushes to enlist and his brother was unable/not allowed because he was a key reporter for the newspapers. They need him for propaganda.
- IMDB:tt0256564
My Brother Jack Cast · · · ALL
Ken Cameron
Director
Matt Day
David Meredith
Simon Lyndon
Jack Meredith
William McInnes
Mr Meredith
Jack Thompson
Bernard Brewster
Felix Williamson
Sam Burlington
Claudia Karvan
Cressida
Ellouise Rothwell
Helen Midgeley