'Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely bond with a reclusive surfer and his mysterious wife. The boys are driven to take risks that will have a profound and lasting impact on their lives.'
Source: Screen Australia.
'A small town on Western Australia's rugged south coast is hoping to ride a wave of publicity brought on by the release of Australian actor and director Simon Baker's new film, Breath.'
'Perhaps some books aren't meant to be adapted for the screen. Or at least not on your first attempt as a feature director.'
Production preview.
'When a top film producer read Tim Winton's novel the attraction was instant, writes Garry Maddox. Hollywood producer Mark Johnson, who won an Oscar for Rain Man and two Emmys for Breaking Bad, was shooting a Katie Holmes horror movie in Melbourne when he saw a passing ad for Tim Winton's novel Breath. Seven years on, the filmmaker whose impressive credits also include Good Morning Vietnam, The Notebook, The Chronicles of Narnia movies and Better Call Saul, is about to produce a film version of the widely admired novel with Simon Baker as director...' (Garry Maddox).
'Winton’s award-winning coming of age novel had a ‘profound effect’ on Baker, who translated it for the big screen in his directorial debut.' (Introduction)
