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Original title

Boy

Year

2010

Running time

87 min.

Country

New Zealand

Director

Taika Waititi

Screenwriter

Taika Waititi

Cast

Music

The Phoenix Foundation

Cinematography

Adam Clark

Producer

New Zealand Film Commission, Unison Films, Whenua Films, New Zealand Film Production Fund, New Zealand On Air, Te Mangai Paho

Genre

Comedy. Drama | 1980s. Childhood. Family Relationships. Comedy-Drama

Synopsis

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.

Rankings Position

#11 Best New Zealand Movies

Awards: 2010: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema

2010: Berlín Film Festival: Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix

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