content: Feature Film / Documentary
narrated by: Russell Crowe
awards: Best Documentary (Multiple awards)
KEY CRED: Highest Grossing Australian Documentary
commissioned by: Privately
year: 2007
Bra Boys is a film about the cultural evolution of the inner-Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth the tattooed and much maligned surf community known as the Bra Boys.
Central to the story is the true-life struggle of the Abberton brothers Sunny, Koby, Jai and Dakota … one charged with murdering a Sydney standover man, another pursuing a professional surf career but charged as an accessory in his brother's legal fight, another trying to hold the family together and a young brother whose inheritance is his siblings notoriety.
The story is narrated by Academy Award-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe, and is told through the eyes of members of the Bra Boys.