I was drawn to “December Boys” (2007) for a couple of reasons: I enjoy coming-of-age stories that aren’t overly explicit and the fact that it's set on the Southern coast of Australia—specifically, filmed on Kangaroo Island, which is part of South Australia. Daniel Radcliffe, known from the Harry Potter movies, was unfamiliar territory for me; I hadn’t seen any of his work before and wasn’t particularly interested in …