The Delinquents

The Delinquents

Some rules were meant to be broken.

1989101 min5.1 / 10

A period romance about young lovers defying parental authority and social convention in 1950s Australia, marked by genuine affection but constrained by circumstance and consequence.

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.

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