Boy Page #3

Synopsis: It's 1984. 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. This is where the goat enters.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Taika Waititi
Production: Unison Films
  13 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
87 min
$242,008
Website
20,646 Views


Hey, real milk!

A new TV!

Eh?

Oh, thank you.

- Here, you can have the rest.

- Oh, thanks, Dad.

Now, don't go burning your eyes out

or anything.

Share them with him too.

- You know this used to be my room?

- Yeah.

Oh, well, you can still use it.

I'll sleep in the garage

with my mates.

Not a problem.

Wow, look at that mop of hair

you've got.

I should cut your hair one day.

Make you look like this fella.

I've seen 'Thriller' 10 times.

I did that.

Don't get into the Nazi stuff.

Night.

Night, Dad.

(DOOR CLOSES)

- How long is he here for?

- Don't know.

But we're leaving with him

when he goes.

Why?

Because that's the way

families work, egg.

Is he the same as before?

Yeah, better.

Do you think he remembers me?

Yeah, of course, man.

- From when I was being born?

- Yep.

- I don't remember it.

- No, of course you don't.

You were just a little baby

and you still are.

What was she like?

Not this again.

Well, she was pretty.

She was a good singer.

And her and Dad were always laughing.

- How did they meet?

- At the beach.

She was swimming and Dad

saved her from drowning.

And then he did a carving of her.

And then they had babies... us.

And he can do heaps of cool stuff.

He can dance as good

as Michael Jackson.

And once, when he was a soldier,

all these commies

pinned him down to the ground,

so he leapt out of his foxhole

and just did this meanest haka

and all them commies got scared

and ran away.

- And was he a soldier?

- Hell, yeah! He's a war hero.

He's even got a green beret.

- What's that?

- A type of hat.

Shh. Look. Look.

There's that mental fella.

Hey, weirdo!

Hey!

Come on, Rocky, get him.

- Aarggh!

- Get out of here, you weirdo.

- Did you get him, Rocky?

- No.

Typical, egg.

Not too hard.

What's the Crazy Horses?

It's my gang. I'm the president

and founding member.

Yeah. Crazy Horses. (NEIGHS)

That's our sign.

It would've been that,

but it was taken.

We're renegades.

What's those?

Someone who lives outside the law,

but they're still cool.

Like the A-Team or the Hulk.

Gee, even these samurais...

they're the meanest renegades.

- Hey, whose is this mean carving?

- Oh, mine.

Yeah. Looks just like E.T.

It's based on one of yours,

but it ain't finished yet.

Yeah, I know,

'cause you ain't done the eyes.

That's the last thing you do...

them eyes.

Do you still carve?

Nup. I ain't got time for that.

(SIGHS) I'm a busy man.

Mmm.

(CALLS) Oh, Rocky!

Hey, where you skating off to?

What's that supposed to mean?

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Taika Waititi

Taika David Waititi ( ( listen); born 16 August 1975) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2004 short film Two Cars, One Night. His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film, with the latter still holding that title as of 2018. He co-directed the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which brought him further critical acclaim and recognition. Waititi later directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which received critical acclaim. more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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