December Boys-Review

In December Boys , daniel radcliff takes a holiday from harry potter to play another orphan. Too bad his destination is coming of age tale so treacly it doesnt tug ur heart strings, it attempts to glue them to ur ribs. As maps one of four boys who share a december bday and hospita;ity of of a catholic orphanage in the australian outback. The inevitable tragedy strikes in the form of death, abandoned and a clay footed hero , its emotional heft is diluted by the screenplay mired in fantasy. as cartwheeling nuns frolic on the sands and the visions of virgin mary glow beneath the waves , the movie congeals into a soggy,symbolic mess