Stickmen

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2001

R16

Restricted

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Three friends tour the Wellington pub scene, playing pool and having fun. Then they enter a tournament run by a vicious crime boss. Charismatic narrator Kirk Torrance (Outrageous Fortune) guides us through the rules of the game, as the stakes escalate. Hamish Rothwell's only feature to date was a Kiwi take on the urban underbelly genre lit in England by 1998 movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . "Smart, stylish and effortlessly entertaining" (The Dominion Post) Stickmen was a hit with young males. It won four 2001 NZ Film Awards (including Best Director, and for Nick Ward's script). Stickmen sold to over 30 countries.

Stickmen is vital, refreshing and sure plays a mean pool ball.
– NZ Herald reviewer Russell Baillie in a four star review, 20 January 2001

Key Cast & Crew

Nick Ward

Writer, As: Client

Scott Wills

As: Wayne

Paolo Rotondo

As: Thomas

Robbie Magasiva

As: Jack

Nigel Bluck

Cinematographer

Hamish Rothwell

Director

See all 53 credits

Produced by

Portman Entertainment

Source

New Zealand Film Commission

Acknowledgements

Produced in association with the NZ Film Commission, NZ On Air, Film 2 and Portman Entertainment (London)

Music

Closing credits music 'Tomorrow Night', composed & performed by The Front Lawn, and Downtown Groove, composed & performed by House Of Downtown (Christiaan Ercolano & Emerson Todd)

Soundtrack features songs by Beetchadupa, DLT, D4, Eye TV, Goldenhorse, HLAH, King Kapisi, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shihad, and Subware