Matching Jack wins Best Picture in Milan
Matching Jack won Best Film at Milan International Film Festival on Saturday 14 May. The win adds to Matching Jack‘s Milan medal tally that last week saw Nadia Tass win for Best Director and Lynne Renew and David Parker awarded Best Screenplay.
Matching Jack tells the story of a door-knocking quest by a mother, Marisa (Jacinda Barrett) to find any illegitimate children her cheating husband (Richard Roxburgh) has left in his wake, after their son Jack (Tom Russell) has been diagnosed with leukemia and she needs to find a bone marrow match.
While in hospital, Jack forms a friendship with Irish boy Finn (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in the next bed while Marisa and Finn’s father, Connor (James Nesbitt) get off on the wrong foot but eventually find mutual respect and offer strength to support their children.
Barrett and Nesbitt were also nominated for awards at Milan in Best Acting Performance Female and Male respectively.
Released in Australia by Twentieth Century Fox, Matching Jack grossed $807,000 during its cinema run.
