Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Blue Fin has generally received mixed reviews.
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Blue Fin was released in 1978 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving Blue Fin (1978) an average rating of 57%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 100%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Blue Fin a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 57%, Blue Fin is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1978, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1978 with similar scores include films like Every Which Way but Loose and Damien - Omen II.
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