Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

dbrooks-80525 Actually I am trying to find out where I can buy the USA format of this movie - I have not been able to see it yet but based on the reviews I have read and the video clips I have seen of the movie I would really like to purchase the movie. I am a great fan of Alex O'Lachlan (O'Loughlin) and so far have watched Moonlight, Three Rivers, The Back Up PLan and of course Hawaii 5-0 and plan on watching more of his work. If anyone knows how I can obtain The Oyster Farmer please let me know. I have tried Amazon, Overstock, Best Buy, Netflix, and other websites with no luck. I even tried overseas but they come with the warning that the DVD may not work with USA machines.

stylized Living local to the Hawkesbury River and often riding the train journey through it, the mind would often drift and create many worlds inspired by this place. It is perhaps one of the more surreal places i have journeyed through in Australia.To see these world come to life in this film was a real joy. In my opinion the director did a fantastic job in taking the audience of this film into another world, a true journey. The projection of the Ausralian way of life was captured in a much more true and realistic light than many Ausralian films have to date. if anyone has made the train journey through the Hawkesbury River and looked out the window in wonder, i cant recommend this film strongly enough, enjoy

-628 Oyster Farmer is a curious Australian movie in that its production values are more impressive than the story itself. First and foremost, the music throughout the movie is brilliant in that it suits the movie perfectly. The cinematography is likewise first class - the aerial scenes of the Hawkesbury River in particular are stunning. Also, the editing is tight and keeps the movie from bogging down - the editor and director deserve commendation for keeping the movie flowing.The story itself is quirky and sometimes makes quantum leaps in credibility but, hey, what interesting movie doesn't? The acting is believable and allows you to understand the characters in most cases.As a simple tale of life in a remote river community, the movie works quite well and deserves its reputation as a significant Australian film. Not great, but quite good.

noralee "Oyster Farmer" is a warm, refreshing, Australian take on the old-fashioned genre of the secretive, hunky stranger with a murky past shaking up a small community.Alex O'Lachlan in his notable debut as "Jack Flange" is very much like William Holden in "Picnic" and Paul Newman in "The Long Hot Summer." While debut writer/director Anna Reeves certainly appreciates his visual and visceral assets, his character's mysteriously tattooed masculinity is a Sensitive New Age Guy metrosexual compared to the hard-working blokes along the mangroves of the isolated Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, which looks a lot like the bayou country of Louisiana that has been similarly used for sultry effect in movies like "The Big Easy." While it's a bit confusing at first to sort out the relationships (let alone the basics of oyster farming), partly due to the accents, in this tight and quirky Brooklyn where everyone knows generations of everybody's paternity, marital disputes, personal business, and, particularly for the plot, their mail, the gradual revelations add to our enjoyment of the comfortable repartee as we are thrust into the ongoing squabbles along with the outsider and learn to appreciate this fading lifestyle as it becomes his home despite his suspicions and other plans.Jim Norton as a Granddad with an Irish gift of gab is particularly entertaining as he goads his stubborn wirey son, an appealing David Field, to make up with his wife, who has the more successful touch as an oyster farmer.Women in this macho environment have to not only be tough, but resilient as they find ways to still assert their femininity. Diana Glenn's "Pearl" seems perfectly adapted to the local way of life-- her hitchhiking up the river is a wonderful detail even as she has "Sex and the City" proclivities --though her flirtation with "Jack" is only frankly lusty. Kerry Armstrong is a marvelous matriarch, but her character's level-headedness reduces opportunities for jealousy, as the script opts for humor over tension.Jack Thompson has a small local color role, but key as he becomes an anchoring father figure for the restless "Jack" as we see him grow new roots.The national park scenery and Alun Bollinger's cinematography are breathtakingly beautiful and that waterfront train looks like a delightful ride, though a bit more geographical context would have been helpful.