Michael Firth's follow-up to his 1977 Oscar-nominated ski documentary Off the Edge, but this time with a plot and scripted dialogue. Canadian Matt hitches from Auckland to meet a bunch of Kiwi extreme thrill-seekers at a southern ski field. They throw themselves off volcanoes, glaciers, mountains and into an Iron Man with "get more go" abandon. Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh's first feature ("I was relatively cheap and I could ski") the film is notable for its action sequences (set to an 80s pop soundtrack) and Billy T James as a mad pilot.
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Hi there -- yes the music credits are hard to decipher! I'm pretty sure that the song 'We are what we are' is sung by Aussie-German 80s band The Other Ones. Check out this YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgrr-4Cg44
Fantastic! I've been looking for this little gem for years. Who sings the "we are what we are" track? Can't quite make it out on the credits.
This movie had a big influence on my life, I was a bored teenager, whose parents had broken up and had stopped taking us skiing. Yes I washed dishes in Queenstown, and snowboarded my youth away in the Southern Alps. Thanks for posting it!!!
loved this movie as a teenager, pleased I can rewatch it now.
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Posted at 06.51PM - 23.02.2010
Right you are Paul. Thanx! Your a legend. The Youtube music video doesn't really do it credit though. It fits so well into the Leading Edge movie. Captures the presence of off piste skiing.