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The last novel by Taranaki author Ronald Hugh Morrieson was his third to be adapted for the big screen. The core of this black comedy is an inter-racial marriage but the role of an English remittance man was expanded in a failed attempt to cast Peter O'Toole. Morrieson's view of small town NZ looks even darker seen in microcosm through the freezing works (filmed at the defunct Patea plant) as he explores racism, violence, murder, suicide and blackmail. Bruno Lawrence contributes a much-praised jazz influenced score (and features in the wedding band).
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kye rei
Posted at 08.29AM - 02.02.2013
luv ths film speacialy th sceens of th patea freezing works i thnk, alot of history thr tht maori girl at the start walking along th beach is a babe