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The comic and his teen co-star Milly Alcock shine in a remarkably charming and moving yarn about transporting a piano 4,000 miles across the Outback
It has taken nearly 4,000 miles, but we got there in the end. Not quite to Upright’s final destination of Perth. The race is still on for the protagonist Lucky (played by the comedian and musician Tim Minchin, in his first dramatic role) to return the family piano to his childhood home before his mother dies. But we have discovered the secrets that drove him and teenager Meg (Milly Alcock) out of their respective homes and together for a cross-country road trip after they crashed into each other (literally) on the road out of Sydney.
Our odd couple continue to thwart the fates that seem intent on stopping them, while there is still time for Lucky’s mother to be reunited with her beloved instrument and her boy. In the latest episodes, which are broadcast in pairs on Sky Atlantic, the fates communicate through the large body of a camel, into which Meg crashes. There is a camel funeral and if you didn’t think you could cry at an ungulate burial, you would be wrong. Continue reading...