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Boy

Where:

🇳🇿 New Zealand

When:

The 1980s

Summer, Girls, Gangs, Drugs ... its not easy being eleven. — 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.

Released in 2010 — 87 minutes

Genres:

Drama Comedy

Languages:

English Maori