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Novelist | Australia
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Best Australian Film Soundtrack | 1999 | Tony
Best Supporting Actor Male | 2000 | Andrew S.
Best Performance by an an Actor in a Supporting Role | 1999 | Andrew S.
Box Office Collection 1,369,280 USD
Nindigully pub, prominently featured in the film as the Boomerang café, is a real life pub, essentially a town in itself (population 6), located 45 km from the nearest town. It is the oldest hotel (pub) in Queensland, operating continuously since 1864.
Writer-director Antony J. Bowman got the idea for the film when he read about a Texan truck driver who also wrote romantic novels.
The Structure on top of the Boomerang Cafe Is still at the Nindigully Pub Site.
The karaoke scene was filmed in the last of the "country-looking" pubs actually located in Woolloongabba, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane. You can visit it today, but it's been revamped somewhat. The Morrison Hotel.
"Jack Willis: I've written a book. Ruby Vale: What kind of book? Jack Willis: A novel. Anyway, it's got your name on it. Ruby Vale: What? A book with me in it? Jack Willis: No, a book with your name on it, like on the cover. Ruby Vale: Like I wrote it? Jack Willis: Yeah. Ruby Vale: Why didn't you put your own name on it? Jack Willis: It's a... it's a... a romance novel."
"Ziggy Keane: I am just trying to work out whether you're a truck driver who writes books or a writer who drives trucks."
