Taika Waititi’s debut film from 2010! Part of the series BIPOC Movie Nights, organized in collaboration with students from Queen’s Film and Media.
- Admission only $5 for students, thanks to BIPOCTalk (Peer Support Centre, Queen’s University)
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.
A simple story of coming of age and the bitter failings of hero worship that succeeds thanks to the impressive skills of its young star.
Linda Barnard (Toronto Star)
It’s a disarmingly lovely, big-hearted film, and hilarious in places.
Cath Clarke (Guardian)
“Boy” finds hope, and love, in the oddest corners.
Tom Long (Detroit News)
| Genre |
ComedyDrama
|
| Runtime | 88 minutes |
| Rated | PG |
| Directed By | Taika Waititi |
| Starring | James Rolleston; Te Aho Eketone-Whitu;Taika Waititi |
| Language | English |
| Country |
New Zealand
|
