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...acting debut, Nable plays "Grub" Henderson, captain of the Newtown Jets. Hard to like but essentially decent, Grub's an abrasive civilian and a violent player, the type who shows a teammate how to grab a rival and deliver "20 straight rights" to his head. Grub isn't coping with a changing game and looming retirement, and his crumbling sense of identity draws him into increasingly caustic clashes with deceitful club CEO "Colgate" Perry (John Jarratt) and Grub's stoical wife Emma, played superbly by Raelee Hill...
...resilient, but also really warm," says Nable from his northern Sydney home. "The actresses who came on board added another element to what we had on paper." Toughness comes in many forms. It's the type shown by Emma and the wise barmaid Kate (Kate Mulvany) that eventually gives Grub a glimpse of a meaningful life beyond warriordom...
...invoke the names of champions of the era: there are no excruciating pleas to "Stop Reddy" or "Thump Sterling." Sprawling Henson Park, frozen in time on the fringe of the CBD, is the perfect venue. Spring rolls are the fare of choice at board meetings. The swearing is relentless. Grub mopes about in what looks like an Exacto windcheater...
...television personality, to play Newtown coach Jack Cooper. Johns is one of those people who can make you laugh just by standing there. Acting, he doesn't always quell the twinkle in his eye but still convinces as the stressed-out, blood-and-guts mentor whose time, like Grub's, is almost up. Johns also has the film's funniest lines, in one scene telling his players in a half-time rant that two of their supposedly rugged team-mates had been off "giving each other a f___ing sponge bath." By bringing a bygone era to life, The Final...
...Reminiscent of the early days of Google's index, built by thousands of daisy-chained personal computers, the Grub Project works by using participants' idle computer power. If enough users volunteer their idle computer time to index the Web, hundreds of thousands of PCs could possibly match the indexing power of first-tier search engines such as Google. The idea of this kind of distributed computing first gained notoriety with the SETI@home project, launched in late 1999. The project set out to find extraterrestrial life through a novel program that launched a screensaver when you weren't using your...