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 The Game of Our Lives
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 Doves of War - Episode One
 Orange Roughies - Episode One

Synopsis

Twenty three years after Foreskin's Lament became a Kiwi cause célèbre, writer Greg McGee brings his classic play to TV. Skin and Bone "asset strips" and updates the story to reflect rugby (and society's) evolution; here Seymour (Outrageous Fortune's Antony Starr) — falteringly pursuing a professional career — returns home to play a last game for his rural club side. The brutality he witnesses leaves him questioning the morals of the code. The role of the old guard coach is reprised by Roy Billing, in McGee's opinion "the first and definitive Tupper".

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Quotes

There's contracts - and there's honour and loyalty. 

– Tupper (Roy Billing)

This is a team game, and the town's the team. That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it'll be, right to the end. 

– Tupper

The film has a very ambivalent attitude to rugby. It shows it being beautiful. It shows it being violent. You see the whole thing. 

– Actor Charles Mesure, in an NZ Herald interview