Boy

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Title

Boy

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Description

Taika Waititi's blockbuster second movie centres on an imaginative 11-year-old East Coast boy (James Rolleston) trying to make sense of his world — and the return of his just-out-of-jail dad (Waititi). Intended as a "painful comedy of growing up", Boy mixes poignancy with Waititi's trademark whimsy and visual inventiveness. The film was shot in the Bay of Plenty area where he partly grew up. A winner at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, Boy soon became the most successful Kiwi film on its home s...

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Format

Video

Date created

2010

URL

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/boy-2010

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east coast / growing up / rite of passage / coming of age / rural / memory / māori / childhood / whanau / family / 80s / east coast maori / kiwi comedy / comedy / whimsical / gang / crazy horses / kids / imagination / eighties / 1980s / nzfc / new zealand on air / nz film commission / nz on air

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