00:05Bucaila Films and V.A.S. Entertainment present Bra Boys
00:12At the core of this story are the Abberton brothers
00:17My mum was a heroin addict and my mum's boyfriend was a bank robber
00:25I caught them all in there shooting up heroin
00:26and I said get out of the house and my mum's boyfriend jumped up and hit me with a baseball
00:32bat
00:36The beach was our life, that's all we had really
00:41But it's good, it turns us into what we are
00:51My grandma Mavis Abberton, who we all called Ma, she had a big house at the beach
00:56Ma's house was like the clubhouse for all the Bra Boys
00:59If anyone started Bra Boys it was her
01:03We'd take the younger guys away on trips and try and push them in the surf
01:06Because that's exactly what the older guys did for me, Jai and Kobe
01:12I'm not one frightened, not one bit scared of my son hanging with the boys
01:17We started stealing to sort of support my habit
01:20Started using other drugs
01:22Lots of the boys said, watch out, you're only going to go one place, you know
01:26A few of the boys had already been there
01:29A professional surfer has been charged over an underworld murder
01:33A society which demands honour
01:35No comment now guys, the family will be issuing a statement tomorrow
01:39Where courage was the only way to survive
01:41It was incomprehensible to lose two brothers to a prison cell for the rest of their lives
01:47A story about love and hope
01:49Before this we're doing really good
01:51I'm glad that my family's are gone
01:53The highest grossing documentary in the history of Australian cinema
01:57I just saw in between all these court appearances
01:59I want to go and serve the biggest ways in the world
02:01Soon to be made into a feature film by Universal and Imagine Entertainment
02:06Here was his chance to say
02:09You want to take my livelihood away?
02:11You want to lock me behind bars?
02:14Give it your best shot
02:16Academy Award winner Russell Crowe
02:19Tells the story of the Bra Boys
02:21See the film that started it all
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