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- Title
- Open House - Shades of Blue
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
Teenage troubles dominate this episode of drama Open House. Fifteen-year-old Hemi Mitchell (Turei Reedy) is avoiding his mother Ngahuia (Tungia Baker), and wagging school to hang out at the beach. There he meets the mysterious Lorna (Sylvia Rands) whose tall tales fascinate him, but beneath her 'cool' shades lie surprises and secrets. Community house leader Tony (Frank Whitten) advocates for a group of glue-sniffing teens crashing at a local church, and Jim Mitchell's job search gets a boost ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1986
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/open-house-shades-of-blue-1986
- Related subjects
- hutt valley / petone / community service / community house / 1980s / drawings / homework / radio / suburbs / cigarettes / street kids / graffiti / te awa kairangi / hutt river / lower hutt / rangatahi / school / teenagers / parents / breakfast / ghetto blaster / petone foreshore / wagging school / seagulls / somes matiu island / working class / herbs / māori-pakeha relations / paris / mystery lady / glue sniffing / soul baring / truths / unemployment / job search / 1980s reforms / rogernomics / tree planting / police / community policing / solvent abuse / planters / the oarsman / unicycle / fantasy / lies / loneliness / jogging / clowns / hospice / cancer / secrets / school kids / school uniform / wakefield / poneke / te ati awa / te reo maori / sandcastles / sand / washing machines / eighties / puberty / teenanger / glue-sniffing / wagging / truancy / ghettoblaster / māori-pākehā relations / whānau / beach / teen / somes island / matiu / 80s eighties / 1986 / te āti awa
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