Boy (2010)
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. This is where the goat enters...
Primary Title
- Boy
Date Broadcast
- Thursday 6 February 2014
Release Year
- 2010
Start Time
- 20 : 30
Finish Time
- 22 : 00
Duration
- 90:00
Channel
- Maori Television
Broadcaster
- Maori Television Service
Programme Description
- 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. This is where the goat enters...
Classification
- AO
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- Feature films--New Zealand
- Fathers and sons--Drama
- Maori (New Zealand people)--Drama
- New Zealand--Drama
Genres
- Comedy-drama
Contributors
- Taika Waititi (Director)
- Taika Waititi (Writer)
- Taika Waititi (Actor)
- James Rolleston (Actor)
- Moerangi Tihore (Actor)
- Te Aho Eketone-Whitu (Actor)
- Cherilee Martin (Actor)
- RickyLee Waipuka-Russell (Actor)
- Haze Reweti (Actor)
- Maakariini Butler (Actor)
- Rajvinder Eria (Actor)
- Whenua Films (Production Unit)
- Unison Films (Production Unit)
- New Zealand Film Production Fund (Funder)
- New Zealand Film Commission (Funder)
- New Zealand on Air (Funder)
- Te Mangai Paho (Funder)
- Cliff Curtis (Producer)
- Ainsley Gardiner (Producer)
- Emanuel Michael (Producer)
- Adam Clark (Cinematographer)
- Rachel House (Actor)
- Cohen Holloway (Actor)
- Stuart Rutherford (Actor)
- Merata Mita (Co-producer)
- Lukasz Buda (Composer)
- Samuel Scott (Composer)
- Conrad Wedde (Composer)
- Rachel House (Actor)
- Cohen Holloway (Actor)
- Chris Plummer (Editor)
- Shayne Radford (Production Designer)
Subjects
- Feature films--New Zealand
- Fathers and sons--Drama
- Maori (New Zealand people)--Drama
- New Zealand--Drama