Unsung Hero: The Riveting Must-See Movie Now in Cinemas
The outstanding movie, Unsung Hero, releases today in Australia! We are delighted that another quality film promoting family and faith will be available at the local cinema from Thursday, 30 May 2024.
Unsung Hero tells the story of the Smallbone family packing up and heading from Sydney to America in 1991. Husband, David, and wife, Helen, along with their seven children made a life-changing decision that continued to present challenges and many setbacks.
Despite the brokenness that David carried during this time, God did the miraculous. He held the Smallbone family in His hands. This week David sat down with Warwick and revealed a little of his story and life adventure of faith.
David’s authentic, down-to-earth love for Jesus is truly inspiring. Watch as Warwick interviews David in the video below. The movie trailer is included in the interview!
We have both seen a preview of the movie and can highly recommend it to you and all your family and friends. For a review of the movie, please see the recent Daily Declaration article by Cody Mitchell called “Unsung Hero: A Refreshing Film on the Strength of Family and Faith“.
The quality of Unsung Hero, for a relatively low six-million-dollar budget, is staggering. Most Hollywood movies, including marketing, have an average budget of 100 million dollars. When you critique films, you must compare apples with apples, not oranges. That said, this film stands as a quality, authentic movie in its own right.
Good Indie films are better than the big ones anyway. They are usually much more authentic! And this one really resonates! Interestingly, the Rotten Tomatoes audience score is very high at 99%. We are not surprised!
David did not produce the movie – or even work on it. The inspiration came from his sons, Joel and Luke (the duo from for KING + COUNTRY), who wanted the world to know their parent’s faith journey.
Luke produced the movie. Joel wrote and directed it, and at the same time acted in the role of David! Directing and acting in the same movie is an extraordinarily rare feat. We give glory to God for Joel’s and the Smallbone family’s display of artistic God-given abilities!
Unsung Hero has achieved a rare A+ Cinema Score (the highest rating available). Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film an overall 96% positive rating, with 90% saying they would definitely recommend it.
We can recommend it too! And due to the movie’s non-cheesy, professional yet authentic character, we can also recommend it as a film to your family and friends who don’t yet know Jesus.
As David says in the interview above, “That was a broken season for me. But what I can tell you is, ‘God is good’. Because my family saw the miraculous. And we were given a story.” Their story is truly inspiring.
Find a cinema near you by clicking the green button below.
In conjunction with the film’s release, for KING + COUNTRY is performing across the nation. With four Grammy Awards and nine Dove Awards to their credit, you will not be disappointed. You can read more about their Homecoming Tour on the Daily Declaration here!
There are three venues left on their Homecoming Tour: Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane. The locations and venues are:
- 31 May: Sydney, Aware Super Theatre at ICC Sydney
- 1 June: Newcastle, Newcastle Entertainment Centre
- 2 June: Brisbane, Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Tickets for The Homecoming Tour are close to selling out in Sydney and Brisbane. To avoid disappointment, we encourage you to book your tickets as soon as possible. Book your tickets for The Homecoming Tour by clicking the orange button below.
We are delighted to endorse quality Christian art that promotes family and faith. As David laughs and says in the interview above, “Woke Hollywood is allowing this movie to come out!” Let’s make the most of every opportunity to promote “the Jesus way, which is truly life-giving” (as David says) on the big screen.
Yours for impacting culture through Christ-exalting art,
Samuel Hartwich & Warwick Marsh
___
Image via CMAA.
One Comment
Leave A Comment
Recent Articles:
21 July 2026
5.6 MINS
The Queensland government has failed for a sixth time to have a Christian’s religious freedom case against COVID-19 injection mandates thrown out of court, with a tribunal member describing part of the government’s argument as “difficult to understand”.
21 July 2026
8.2 MINS
We don't talk about social atomisation, do we? Most of us would be hard pressed to define it. Yet it is reshaping our society in ways we barely acknowledge — fragmenting our communities, eroding our connections, and leaving us isolated in the midst of billions.
21 July 2026
4.2 MINS
Dennis Prager has spent fifty years warning that the rejection of God leads to the death of civilisations. His new book, If There Is No God, proves prescient: as Europe crumbles and the secular West fragments, Prager offers what the culture refuses to provide — rational, biblical arguments for why morality cannot exist without the God of the Bible.
20 July 2026
3 MINS
It’s been said women have relationships face to face while men have relationships shoulder to shoulder. As a husband, father of five daughters, and CEO whose work is encouraging men to be the best they can be, I couldn’t agree more.
17 July 2026
15.2 MINS
The Church is wimpy, and it's destroying the nation. That's the blunt assessment of Rev. Chris Wickland, a UK clergyman who refuses to soften the gospel for perceived cultural acceptance. And he has a point. From the rise of "woke" institutional Christianity to the abdication of prophetic witness, the modern Church has traded its backbone for a desperate attempt to attain a disappearing seat at the table.
17 July 2026
4.5 MINS
Landlords have shut the door on the LGBTQ+ desecration of a former Sydney Catholic Church and theatre named after saints.
17 July 2026
3.8 MINS
Jillian Spencer, a Queensland psychiatrist suspended for questioning childhood gender treatments, has been cleared by AHPRA, as her hospital prepares to release its own statement.
Thank you Warwick and Sam for the write up on ‘The Unsung Hero’. It’s a brilliant film and wonderful testimony, showing how God can help a family during very tough times as they face an economic and unemployment crisis and change to a new country.
I loved every part of it but especially the scenes showing the children and family praying and then God answering. This planting of small seeds later grew into an amazing story – a legendary musician’s dream.