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Joey (1997)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Joey is an Australian family adventure film from 1997, written by Stuart Beattie and Maxwell Grant and directed by Ian Barry.12-year-old Billy McGregor (Jamie Croft) lives with his mother Penny (Rebecca Gibney), in the Australian outback town of Harrisville New South Wales. His friendship with a family of kangaroos is threatened when the Dixon family call in a "Kanga-Catcher" (Harold Hopkins) from Sydney to take them away, leaving only their baby Joey behind. Billy takes Joey and runs away to Sydney in hopes of tracking them down. He's joined by Linda (Alex McKenna), the sheltered daughter of US Ambassador Ted Ross (Ed Begley Jr.).
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Boxing Kangaroo
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Boxing Kangaroo: Billy and Linda eventually track down Joey's family to an underground gambling operation where kangaroos are forced to fight people.
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A Boy and His X
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A Boy and His X: Billy and Joey.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: In the opening scene Billy uses a remote-control car with a camera mounted on it to watch the kangaroos without scaring them, which he brings out in the climax to get footage from inside Kangaroo Kingdom.
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Can't You Read the Sign?
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Can't You Read the Sign?: While on the train to Sydney, Billy panics upon seeing an oddly-specific "No Kangaroos" sign.
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Bonding over Missing Parents
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Bonding over Missing Parents: Billy and Linda bond over the deaths of his father and her mother.
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Abhorrent Admirer: Constable David Walker tries to ask out Penny several times, telling her how much Billy needs a father figure. She gets fed up with it pretty quickly and leaves for Sydney to search for him.
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Anger Born of Worry
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Anger Born of Worry: Ambassador Ross is furious with Linda after she goes missing, to the point of refusing to hear her explanation, leading her to run off again.
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