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wrote "It is not surprising that playwright Reg Cribb saw the story of Max Bell as ready-made for the telling. It has all the elements of a mythic quest with a sturdy, self-deprecating hero meeting a host of different characters as he travels a last time through his native land."
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The script for the film was adapted as a screenplay by Sims and Cribb. Sims' association with Reg Cribb began when his production company, Pork Chop
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and based upon the true story of taxi driver Max Bell who was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer in the early 1990s. The 2003 production was presented both at the Sydney Opera House and the
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