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Love Birds

Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 2011

PG
Parental Guidance

Director Paul Murphy follows Second Hand Wedding with a romance featuring comedian Rhys Darby, songs by Queen and ... a duck. Darby plays heartbroken nice guy Doug: after a close encounter with a native duck (a paradise shelduck) with emotional problems, he enlists expert help from a sassy animal specialist (played by Brit Sally Hawkins, a Golden Globe-winner for feature Happy-Go-Lucky). True to rom-com form, love ensues ... eventually. NZ Herald reviewer Russell Baillie called Love Birds “an endearingly funny, if sugar-coated local romantic comedy”.

You’re just some bloke who’s too scared to fly, with a duck that can’t.
– Holly (Sally Hawkins) to Doug (Rhys Darby)

Produced by

  • Atlantic Film Production

  • Eyeworks - Matthew Metcalfe

Source

Logo for STUDIOCANAL

STUDIOCANAL

Acknowledgements

Icon Entertainment International in association with Silver Reel, the New Zealand Film Commission, NZ On Air, Digipost and Eyeworks

Music

Music composed by Plan Nine
Featuring songs by Queen

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