He pried it open with a tire iron. Inside: a cracked Polaroid of a boy who looked exactly like him—same cowlick, same gap-toothed grin—but wearing baggy jeans and a Spawn T-shirt. Beneath the photo, a handwritten letter:
The story follows 12-year-old (played by Jamie Croft), who lives in the rural Australian outback town of Harrisville with his mother, Penny. Billy forms a bond with a local family of kangaroos, but their peace is shattered when a neighbor hires a "Kanga-Catcher" to remove them. While the adult kangaroos are captured and transported to Sydney—where they are intended for an illegal kangaroo fighting ring—a baby kangaroo, or "joey," manages to escape. joey 1997