Blinder (film)

Blinder is a 2013 Australian film directed by Richard Gray and starring Oliver Ackland, Rose McIver, Anna Hutchison and Jack Thompson. The film is an Australian rules football drama set predominately in Torquay, Victoria. The film centers around Tom Dunn, an aspiring football star who fled Australia following a scandal. Dunn returns to Australia to restore his reputation.

The Torquay Tigers are a successful team playing in the Bellarine Football league. Their coach Charlie "Chang" Hyde has guided the team into their first Grand Final in seven years. There is talk that the team's best three players, Dunn, Mortimer and Regan, may get drafted by one or more AFL clubs. On the eve of the match the coach drops star player Tom Dunn for poor attitude. The club is successful and wins the flag. Dunn feels left out of the celebrations and strikes up a friendship with Rose Walton. Rose's younger sister Sammy, (McIver) is part of the teams support staff by carrying water for the players.

The following year, Torquay again plays off for the Grand Final and manage a come from behind win. At the after match celebration party, young Sammy had under aged sex with Mortimer. Dunn who was told by Rose to look out for her sister was drugged by a spiked drink and passes out. The local paper publishes photos of the night with of the out of control party and the team goes from heroes to zeros overnight. The scandal the follows rips the team apart with Dunn leaving for America. Only Regan gets drafted, the other two didn't because the major league clubs didn't want to be caught up in the scandal.

Ten years later Chang collapses and dies while addressing the players during a match on the eve of the finals, Dunn returns from America for the funeral and to face his demons, the girlfriend who scorns him and his best friend. Feeling uneasy about being in his hometown after many years, Dunn realise that the townfolk haven't forgotten him or the scandal.

Regan, who was Changs's assistant takes over the team, he asks Dunn to assist him as he coaches the team into the finals.

The film was scheduled to have a 10-week shoot beginning 20 February 2012 in Torquay, Victoria, Australia, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, US.

Well Go USA released Blinder in US theaters and on digital HD simultaneously on 7 November 2014.