About
Other Halves is a romance about two people who meet in a psychiatric hospital — a middle-aged Pākehā woman, whose decaying marriage has brought her low, and a disaffected young Polynesian criminal. The film was Kiwi-born actor Lisa Harrow’s (Nancy Astor, Shaker Run) first local role in 16 years. Harrow praised her co-star, 16-year-old Niuean Mark Pilisi, as one of the best actors she had worked with. British critic David Robinson argued that Other Halves felt like the unbelievable "wish-dream" of a middle-class female. He may have been unaware that Sue McCauley's original novel was inspired by the person she later married.
Key Cast & Crew
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Sue McCauley
Original Author, Writer
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Mark Pilisi
As: Tug
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Tony Manning
Colourist
Related images
Mark Pilisi and Lisa Harrow, the stars of 1984 film Other Halves.
Photo by Gil Hanly, provided by Onfilm
Preparing a shot on 1984 film Other Halves: from left, first assistant director John Samuels, gaffer Don Jowsey, director John Laing (with beard) and camera operator Barry Harbert.
Photo by Gil Hanly, provided by Onfilm
(From left) actors Olf Ulberg, Mark Pilisi, Temuera Morrison and Allan Sio in 1984 film Other Halves.
Photo by Gil Hanly, provided by Onfilm
Tug (Mark Pilisi) and two of the members of his gang: Billy (Raymond Reid, centre) and Bones (Olf Ulberg, far left).
Lisa Harrow as Liz, in 1984 film Other Halves.
