CEDAR BOYS: March 15, 17, 18 (MA)

Emily Dunn & Elicia Murray ... July 7, 2008
WHEN Les Chantery accepted a role in the Australian director Serhat Caradee's film Cedar Boys, it meant turning down a possible future as the next Luke Perry or Jason Priestley. The Los Angeles-based, Sydney-born actor had completed a test for a character in 90210, a where-are-they-now spin-off of the '90s TV hit Beverley Hills 90210. However, he decided against further auditions when Caradee told him Cedar Boys had received a green light ... "I hadn't got the role [in the television series] yet but I was at a stage where you have to sign a contract, meaning you can't do other things in the meantime," Chantery told SiT from Maroubra, where he is halfway through the four-week shoot ... In the story of a group of young Australian Lebanese men ... click here to read more

Review by David Stratton

In CEDAR BOYS, Tarek, LES CHANTERY, a Lebanese-Australian, lives with his parents and little sister in Sydney’s western suburbs; his older brother, Jamal, BREN FOSTER, is serving a prison sentence for an unspecified crime and can’t afford the money for an appeal ... Tarek sees the chance to help his brother when his mate, Nabil, BUDDY DANNOUN, who works as a cleaner in a block of flats, observes some suspicious comings and goings and suspects an apartment is being used as a drug depot – Nabil persuades Tarek to help him steal the drugs. They enlist their drug dealer friend Sam, WADDAH SARI, to help move the pills and they start to reap the profits ... Meanwhile Tarek has met Amie ... click here to read more

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