Nanna Maria, the matriarch of a Fijian family living in Auckland feels that the heart has gone out of her clan. Nanna demands that her grown grandchildren put on a traditional feast at which she will name her successor. The grandchildren - Soul, Charlene, Hibiscus, Erasmus, and Tyson - reluctantly turn up. But family conflicts send the day into chaos and an outraged Nanna calls the whole thing off. No. 2 was the debut feature for director Toa Fraser and winner of the audience award at Sundance 2006.
Not many feature films start off as theatre monologues - especially when they have large ensemble casts like this one. No. 2 (known as Naming Number Two in North America, to avoid any scatological connotations) is one that made a ...
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Television, 2004 (Full Length)
The actors in this film are in fact real Children of the Migration
Available on DVD from Aro Video.
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