Boys in the Island is a 1989 Australian film based on the 1958 novel by Chris Koch.
[1] In the 1950s teenage Frank dreams of leaving Tasmania for Melbourne.
At one stage Gillian Armstrong had wanted to film the book and approached Koch to make it, but she then elected to make Mrs Soffel instead.
He wrote a script with friend Tony Morphett and attached director Carl Schultz.
Funds were raised through Antony I. Ginnane and his company, International Film Management Limited.