Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Boy [videorecording] / Whenua Films and The New Zealand Film Production Fund ; Unison Films, in association with The New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand on Air, Te Mangai Paho present ; a film by Taika Waititi ; written and directed by Taika Waititi ; produced by Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis, Emanuel Michael.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Kino Lorber, Inc., c2013.

Description:

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The year is 1984, and on the rural east coast of New Zealand Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is changing kids' lives. 'Boy' is a dreamer who lives with his brother Rocky and his Nan. When Boy's father, Alamein, returns home after seven years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential, and learn to get along without the hero he had been looking for.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Fathers and sons -- New Zealand -- Drama.

Boys -- New Zealand -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Coming-of-age films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Motion pictures -- New Zealand.

Other Author:

Waititi, Taika.