My Father Bet on Options and Crocodiles:

“What happens when the risks your parents took become part of the story you inherit?”

In 1985, Darren's father was a Sydney stockbroker when two men walked into a pub with a movie nobody wanted to finance—and asked for $8 million. What followed involved options trading, a multimillion-dollar missed bet, an Australian film that became an international phenomenon, a video store that sparked Darren's love of movies, and a family history that eventually came full circle. It's a story about money, risk, ambition, regret, and the strange ways our parents' choices become part of our own.