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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. (imdb) (by )
Poster submitted by monclivieStarring: Rachel House, Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Moerangi Tihore, Cherilee Martin, RickyLee Waipuka-Russell, Haze Reweti, Maakariini Butler, Rajvinder Eria, Rachel Hamblyn, Darcy Ray Flavell-Hudson
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monclivie |
93 |
T10 |
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Maandysheera |
82 |
T9 |
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chengming |
75 |
T7 |
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jols |
78 |
T7 |
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damil |
75 |
T9 |
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tielardurdin |
86 |
T9 |
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Florew |
69 |
T7 |
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DelToro |
55 |
T4 |
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admin |
7 |
T7 |
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sdiama |
58 |
T5 |
| na |
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Pigeon Army |
80 |
T6 |
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cin |
93 |
T10 |
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kwazar |
80 |
T9 |
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Luk92 |
80 |
T8 |
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Rohrkrepiere |
100 |
T6 |
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Paxton |
75 |
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How will the untimely death of Michael Jackson effect the way this film is viewed? It won't because his death wasn't untimely. If you didn't see that coming, you are unfamiliar with what human beings look like.
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IMDb-byvotes |
73 |
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avgcrtckr |
67 |
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ellinikos |
70 |
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There's the occasional sweet moment, but it's not buoyed up by the good feeling of Waititi's other films despite having the same awkward sense of humour, which is a shame; most of the setpieces and ideas have been better dealt with elsewhere (often by Waititi himself), and the result feels slightly more forced than it probably should.
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filmcricket |
76 |
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jbm |
100 |
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SlantMag |
20 |
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"The use of flipbook animation and exaggerated fantasy sequences entails a certain logic, but these devices run aground on a fairly limited sense of imagination which fails to make up for the story's essential slightness." - Andrew Schenker
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kitezh |
95 |
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Meta Critic |
69 |
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trysil |
79 |
T6 |
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korbenPL |
64 |
T8 |
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nath |
77 |
T6 |
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Tikaz |
84 |
T7 |
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Alwyn |
78 |
T6 |
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egleland |
89 |
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samcoarse |
68 |
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Good to see some real New Zealand cinema. Essentially a biographical recollection of life in rural New Zealand. Touches on the delusions of wealth and prosperity the Americanized media of the 80's was pouring onto the impoverished communities scattered around the globe, call it escapism or what you want but it was a notion that was fully subscribed to by the idealists, young and old. Stick around for the Haka-Thriller-Bollywood number during the credits.
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burflok |
65 |
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bob |
69 |
T5 |
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kerryland |
88 |
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Loved it (but I grew up in New Zealand in the 80s, so I'm also the perfect target audience)
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Morningsider |
85 |
T8 |
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porouian |
90 |
T10 |
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laika |
88 |
T9 |
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bren |
87 |
T9 |
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hank |
80 |
T7 |
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Pretty good coming-of-age tale.
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imdb |
74 |
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meliorism |
75 |
T8 |
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AKS |
48 |
T2 |
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gtsnuggler |
3 |
T6 |
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saeedsalim |
84 |
T6 |
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DBibby |
63 |
T3 |
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blueswan1984 |
70 |
T5 |
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supercihan |
73 |
T6 |
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daria.wrazen |
70 |
T6 |
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hodaj |
65 |
T5 |
| na |
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SpokoWap |
80 |
T9 |
| na |
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FliXt |
64 |
T2 |
| na |
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cambelboy |
68 |
T5 |
| na |
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elephantman |
77 |
T6 |
| na |
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LanceRomance |
73 |
T5 |
| na |
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Ranald |
40 |
T1 |
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A rather weird film, depicting a series of grim and depressing events but playing them as feel-good knockabout comedy. It doesn't work.
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