James Rolleston
Boy
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In 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old is living in Waihau Bay, in the Tairawhiti (Gisborne) region of New Zealand, on a small farm with his grandmother, younger brother Rocky, and several cousins.
With James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore. Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Taika Waititi
- 2010-03-25
BOY was filmed in Waihau Bay in the Bay of Plenty, where Waititi grew up. The film is inspired by "true and imagined memories". Says Waititi, "Part of what makes this film distinct is the humour; I want to explore the painful comedy of growing up and interpreting the world.
Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 2010. Taika Waititi's blockbuster second movie centres on an imaginative 11-year-old East Coast boy (James Rolleston) trying to make sense of his world — and the return of his just-out-of-jail dad (Waititi).
- 1 min
Boy is an unusual, story of a young male prostitute in a New Zealand village who struggles to expose the truth behind a fatal accident. Show more. Status: Complete, Released. Genre: Drama. Credits: Directed by: Welby Ings. Produced by: Nic Finlayson. Screenplay by: Welby Ings. Cast: Sam. Jesse Lee. Driver. Bryan Bevege. Delwyn. Tammy Warwick.
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Filmed in the Bay of Plenty, where Waititi partly grew up, Boy is inspired by "true and imagined memories" – an 11-year-old boy (James Rolleston) trying to make sense of his world, and the return...
