Film201087 min

Boy

Name: Boy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2010
Duration: 87 min
Cast: James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore, Cherilee Martin

Taste attributes: comedydramaanimalsteenlightrealisticsimplelinearglossyemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationshipunderdog triumphs

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"Summer, Girls, Gangs, Drugs ... its not easy being eleven."

Boxlist takeA stylish, moving comedy-drama: grounded and uncomplicated. Best if you like polish over grit.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

7.4 /10

TMDB · 259 votes

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What lines up

Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Balanced, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before.

Synopsis: TMDB