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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Lee Tamahori
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Actors:
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George Henare,
Taungaroa Emile,
Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell,
Rachael Morris Jr.,
Joseph Kairau,
Pete Smith,
Rena Owen,
Temuera Morrison,
Julian Arahanga,
Cliff Curtis
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)86.5
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Plot Summary:
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Sometimes WERE WARRIORS is a powerful dusting that focuses on a Experimental Zealand family descended from Maori tribesmen. Allowing for regarding Jake (Temuera Morrison) and Beth Heke (Rena Owen), entity in their suburban ghetto is going from bad to worse. Jake's objective wrecked his job, their delinquent teenage son Boogie has to appear in court, and they can't make ends meet with five growing kids. Late that night, they host another one of Jake's raunchy drinking parties while the children dwell awake in their bedroom. When their oldest son asks to save currency, which Beth discovers Jak... e has gambled away, it ignites a vicious barney that Jake solves by giving Beth a specific of his brutal beatings. The tide of wildness continues to ebb and spread in the Heke household until a terrible tragedy makes them confront the dysfunctional solemn of their kids.
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Once Were Warriors
An emotionally raw, visually chichi first memorable part, with the intensity of the best social melodrama, about the...
Once Were Warriors
"...[This] unambiguously heartfelt drama liking likely touch a nerve with many who see it..." -- 3 in of 4 stars
Once Were Warriors
Told in a bold, unflinching way, director Lee Tamahori's endowment-winning drama grips and fascinates as it lifts the lid on ghetto Maori life. Rena Owen is drainingly moving as the finish-upon housewife, pushed physically and mentally to the brink while worrying to exhibit her set together, bearing the stress of her unemployed husband's drink-fuelled frustrations. Tamahori's bleak smokescreen is unprotected, severe cinema with a lone representative, showing a people adrift from their cultural roots and trapped in an urban nightmare of for a song housing and gangland controlled precincts. One of the most apposite and important works to come to light from Down Under in years.
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