Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country opens with Sam Neill’s preacher Fred Smith sharing a meal with his Aboriginal farmhands Sam and Lizzie Kelly (exceptional newcomers Hamilton Morris and Natassia Gorey-Furber). “We’re all equal in the eyes of the Lord,” the preacher sermonizes as he says grace with the couple. This scene serves as a
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