Other Halves

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Other Halves

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Other Halves is a romance about two people who meet in a psychiatric hospital — a middle-aged Pākehā woman, whose decaying marriage has brought her low, and a disaffected young Polynesian criminal. The film was Kiwi-born actor Lisa Harrow’s (Nancy Astor, Shaker Run) first local role in 16 years. Harrow praised her co-star, 16-year-old Niuean Mark Pilisi, as one of the best actors she had worked with. British critic David Robinson argued that Other Halves felt like the unbelievable "wish-dream...

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Video

Date created

1984

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/other-halves-1984

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