RELEASE DATE: 26th August 2010
- Thoroughly entertaining your mouth will hurt from smiling incessantly!New Zealand film "Boy" from actor/director, Taika Waititi who wrote, directed and starred in this feature (and also directed the 2007 film Eagle vs Shark) is sure to entertain and pull on the heart-strings of those sensitive types! Soon to be release at Cinema Nova and Palace cinemas, this film is akin to such Australian classic's as "Muriel's Wedding" and will be sure to go down in New Zealand cinema history in much the same way.
Set in the mid 1980's "Boy" (played by young actor James Rolleston) shares his love of Michael Jackson and his dream to bond with and meet his absent father, Alameinn. None too soon Boy's wish comes true and his father returns to the family, although Boy and his Father's intentions are not exactly the same.
You must watch out for the hilarious scene where Boy first meet's his father and two of his friends outside the family home, a stilted conversation ensues which lay's the foundations of further interactions between the two and there are many more laugh-out-loud moments like this throughout the film.
A simple but sad tale told with humour and the insights of a young boy who comes to the realisation that his father isn't the man he had imagined him to be.
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