Plot
The Torquay Tigers are a successful team playing in the Bellarine Football League. Their coach Charlie "Chang" Hyde has guided the team into their first Grand Final in seven years. There is talk that the team's best three players, Dunn, Mortimer and Regan, may get drafted by one or more AFL clubs. On the eve of the match the coach drops star player Tom Dunn for poor attitude. The club is successful and wins the flag. Dunn feels left out of the celebrations and strikes up a friendship with Rose Walton, whose younger sister Sammy, (McIver) is part of the team's support staff, carrying water for the players. The following year, Torquay again plays off for the Grand Final and manage a come-from-behind win. At the after-match celebration party, young Sammy has underage sex with Mortimer. Dunn, who had been told by Rose to look out for her sister, is drugged by a spiked drink and passes out. The local paper publishes photos of the night with the out-of-control party, and the team goes from heroes to zeros overnight. The scandal that follows rips the team apart, with Dunn leaving for America. Only Regan gets drafted; the other two don't because the major league clubs don't want to be caught up in the scandal. Ten years later Chang collapses and dies while addressing the players during a match on the eve of the finals; Dunn returns from America for the funeral and to face his demons, the girlfriend who scorns him and his best friend. Feeling uneasy about being in his hometown after many years, Dunn finds that the townfolk haven't forgotten him or the scandal. Rose has moved on and married but still is bitter towards him. Regan, whose football career was ruined by injury has returned to be Changs's assistant. Encouraged to take over the team, he asks Dunn and Mortimer to assist him as he coaches the team into the finals.Cast
* Oliver Ackland as Tom Dunn * Anna Hutchison as Rose Walton * Angus Sampson as Franky Tanner * Jack Thompson as Coach Charlie 'Chang' Hyde * Josh Helman as James 'Mort' Mortimer * Rose McIver as Sammy Walton * Bobby Morley as Nick Regan *Production and release
The film was scheduled to have a 10-week shoot beginning 20 February 2012 inReception
''Blinder'' was a box-office flop, taking $47,394 on its opening weekend. The film was shown on 99 screens, giving it an average of $478 per screen. The film was negatively reviewed by critics. SBS critic Don Groves gave the film 2 stars out of 5, saying it was "an uninspiring, B-grade effort". Film critic Luke Buckmaster, writing for ''References
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