Boy (2010, New Zealand)
Comedy, Drama, Event
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Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Ei Kura Albert, Maakariini Butler, Manaia Callaghan, Tainui Callaghan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Duration: 87 mins
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Summary: It’s 1984, and Michael Jackson is king – even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy’s father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version – an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before.
“Outwardly simple, yet inwardly complex . . .” (Urban Cinefile)
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