Starring Hugh Jackman and Claudia Karvan. Rated M.

I have to say from the outset, Hugh Jackman, whom I have not seen before (therefore must class as a newcomer on the movie scene) will be viewed by the female of the species as seriously spunky. He is rather handsome, if I may venture to say, not unlike myself!

Paperback Hero is a simple tale of simple folk. Jack Willis is an outback truck driver with his own reserved parking spot at Ruby Vale's outback truckstop cafe.

Both are young and young at heart. He is a romantic stuck in a blokey stereotype. Having penned a novel in the trashy, supermarket-shelf genre he submits it to a Sydney publishing house under the pen name of Ruby Vale, too scared he'd be laughed out of town as less than a man.

Ruby is the tomboyish cafe owner, who also flies the local crop duster, accepted in the local community as a pillar and one of the boys.

When the stereotypical city-slicker publisher comes to town to find Ruby Vale, the latest darling, over-night sensation of the publishing world, things get a little complicated.

Jack is forced to reveal his hobby Ruby, whose name he has had to forge once or twice to get to this stage.

Not happy at the deception, Ruby agrees to go along, lured by the promise of a big wedding she always dreamt about -- to the local, less than outgoing, veterinarian.

Big country meets big city when Jack and Ruby roll up outside the publishers CBD offices block in the 22 wheeler Jack calls home.

Paperback Hero is a romantic tale, pretty harmless in its depth. It's an excuse to wheel out many of the tried and true city-meets-bush and outback-Australian cliches that we know and love. It's not fast paced or academically taxing, but a simple tale of simple folk told simply. It's not hilarious or rollicking. It's more the kind of movie you sit through with a warm happy grin on your puss and a warm romantic glow in your heart. The kind of movie that makes me come away thanking my lucky stars that I (now) say, this wide brown land's for me.