About
This film charts the redemption of Jake the Muss. It picks up the story after he turns his back on his family, and is up to his tricks at McClutchy's Bar. After one of Jake's sons dies suspiciously in a gang fight, another, Sonny (Clint Eruera) seeks revenge, accompanied by a fellow gang member (Nancy Brunning). Scripted by Once Were Warriors author Alan Duff and directed by Ian Mune, Broken Hearted became the second-highest-earning Kiwi film of the 1990s (eclipsed only by Warriors). It scooped most of its categories at the 1999 NZ Film & TV Awards — though not for Rawiri Paratene's acclaimed role as a gang veteran.
Warning: content may offend
Key Cast & Crew
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Alan Duff
Original Author, Associate Producer, Writer
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Clint Eruera
As: Sonny Heke
