The Devil's Playground (1977) on Netflix
In August 1953, thirteen-year-old Tom Allen enters a Catholic juniorate in Melbourne run by the De La Salle Brothers. He joins boys held, like their teachers, to faith and self-restraint.
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Plot summary
Tom Allen is thirteen in August 1953, when he arrives at a Catholic juniorate in Melbourne, a boys' school staffed by the De La Salle Brothers. Brothers and students live under one rule there, which asks for faith and for the control of sexuality. That rule presses on both groups, and the challenges it brings, of belief and of the flesh, are individual ones for each boy and each Brother in the house.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Devil's Playground (1977)
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- Fred Schepisi wrote the screenplay from his own experience attending a Catholic juniorate, and it took him five years to write.
