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Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
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Banduk
Duration: 1 h 30 m | 1985
Banduk discovers that Mr Kool is smuggling birds out of Australia.
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