In December 2006 the movie December Boys is going to be released. This drama is a film that is based on Michael Noonan’s novel and focuses on four orphans who leave their orphanage for a holiday by the sea. A rumor about one of the boys possibly being adopted causes tension to rise among the orphans.

Daniel Radcliffe will star in December Boys. This is the first film since Harry Potter that Daniel has taken on. The film is directed by Rod Hardy. The other boys in the movie are Christian Byers, Lee Cormie, James Fraser and co starts Jack Thompson and Teresa Palmer.

The movie is set in the late 1960’s and these four close knit orphans in Australia were referred to as the December Boys because they were all born in the same month. They had given up hope of ever being adopted. Danielle Radcliff is to play the oldest of the four orphans competing for the affections of a childless couple keep to adopt a son. As the drama unfolds he also has his first love affair at an isolated beach resort.

The novel December Boys was first published in 1963 and a synopsis of the book is as follows from the inside of the book itself.

"At the Catholic Orphanage of St. Roderick's, Chocker, Spark, Maps, Fido and Misty were called 'the December Boys', because it was believed that they were all born in that month. Now, in another December, they made their first visit to the sea. They go to Captain's Folly near that legendary village of Serenity which made a vivid background for The Patchwork Hero, to which, in a sense, this books is a sequel. The boys explore this Pacific coastal village with ruthless and inquisitive eyes, searching out the beauty and the comedy of a place which is peopled by relics of the Depression, Genuine eccentrics who have stayed on to live in huts and caves around the bay. With the unquestioning acceptance of youth they meet Fingers Galore, the failed musician who pounds out Rachmaninoff on the piano in his cave, Shelback O'Lear, whose aim in life is to catch the giant groper fish called Henry, and Socrates, an old crock of a cart-horse, who catches fish for a family of wild cats. But it is on Teresa that their holiday centers. She becomes the unwitting source of wild expectations. As the boys compete for her affection they discover emotions which they only partly recognize."