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Boy

Cast

James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore View All


Crew

Taika Waititi (Director), Taika Waititi (Writer) View All

Release: Feb. 14th, 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
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...
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Holden Pike
As Alamein digs and digs trying to find the spot, Boy and Rocky learn who their Dad is, and heroic adventurer doesn't come close.
Takoma11
His mother died years earlier, and his father, Alamein (Taika Waititi, who also wrote and directed) has been long absent.
TheUsualSuspect
It's a small indie film about a boy and his admiration for his father, which ends up being misplaced admiration because his father is a POS.


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