Film Review - The Travellers (2025)

The Travellers is the new movie by Bruce Beresford and stars Luke Bracey as Stephen an Opera set designer living in Europe who returns home to Western Australia to visit his dying mother and elderly father (Bryan Brown) as well as his sister Nikki (Susie Porter) but when family sometimes comes back together it can be an uneasy time.

I mainly saw the Travellers because of Bryan Brown being in the movie and it is a sweet little movie that I enjoyed watching, Brown is a loveable old grump here and he generates a lot of the films best comedic moments, Bracey is also good as the slightly ponce son who has gone overseas to find his way in the world and he also has a good easy going charm about him that I liked, Porter is also good as Nikki the concerned sister who wants to protect her father as much as possible.

The film also has some nice Western Australian scenery in it as well from the lovely city views of Perth to the rural areas where water glistens on the sun, the pub is central and the desert isn’t too far away and also I enjoyed Celia Hassingham as Jenny, a former flame of Stephen’s based in Perth and she had that great Perth look about her as well especially in one scene where she wears a nice blue dress.

And so that was the Travellers, not much to say here but it is an enjoyable little movie that is worth seeing, 3 out of 5.