The Dark Horse Page #3

Synopsis: A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Production: Southern Light Films
  24 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
2014
124 min
Website
2,759 Views


Yeah, you shouldn't leave them

in other people's rooms.

How come you stopped playing?

Dad's home.

Where you been?

Drive to f***in' Hamilton or something?

Sorry. I've left your

keys right there, okay?

No, no, you wait around.

I want to talk to you.

Mana, come out back. Blood's here.

You coming?

Hey, Boss.

Thanks for coming, my brother.

You know my boy.

Birthdays coming up.

Fifteen.

Been thinking.

He's ready.

I want him in.

Some ain't right for it, eh?

He is.

This what you want, boy?

Yeah.

Old time's sake, my brother?

Old time's sake.

You want him done on his birthday?

Right.

- Mutt.

- Yeah?

Boy's all yours now. Harden him up.

We ain't patching no child.

Sweet as, bro.

Moment of truth now, boy?

Sweet.

Be seeing you soon, eh, boy?

ATM'?

You wanted to talk to me?

Murray!

Rusty! Rusty! Murray?

- Hey, bro, can I have a turn?

- No.

- No! No! You can't!

- I said please.

Don't break the table, all right?

You do it every week.

Don't you break it.

I'll break your face!

Thank you for doing

what I said not to do.

Calm down.

Calm down! Rusty.

Come on, you fellas, calm down.

Shut up!

Thank you, Nathan!

All right, everyone, sit down, please.

- I'll take you to...

- Murray, Murray!

Boys, I told you, sit down.

Okay, so, you fellas who haven't had a

meal, there's some milk up there for you.

And we've got a new member today.

Genesis Potini.

Or, as he was once

called, The Dark Horse.

- Dark Pony!

- Nice hair, bro!

Thank you very much, Rip.

Thank you very much.

We're gonna do some

quick introductions,

and when I say quick, I mean quick.

So, Jedi, you want to kick us off, bro?

Kia or a, bro.

I'm Jedi.

- The Stallion.

- The gelding.

I'm the club DJ here,

so if you got any requests,

send them this way.

Even if I was 40 years old,

I wouldn't listen to your sh*t.

Now, stop it.

And my special power would be...

- No.

- ...ladies' man.

- No special power.

- I want a special power.

All right, you can have one.

Everyone can have one special power.

Kia or a, bro!

I'm Rusty,

and my special power will be

to jump to the moon and colonize it.

- Kia or a.

- Kia or a, Rusty.

I'm Piripi.

I don't really have a special power.

- Come on.

- I'm Rangimarie.

I'm from Awapuni,

and if I had a superpower,

it would be to fly to America,

meet Usher, bring him back to Gizzy,

and make him have my babies.

HEY-

- You'd have his babies.

- Cut it out.

My name is Murray. If I had a superpower,

it would be invisible and super strength.

- Can only have one.

- No, only one.

Fine, I pick super strength.

I'm Nathan. My special power

would be playing music.

Kia or a, bro.

- My name's Rip.

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James Napier Robertson

James William Napier Robertson (born 24 March 1982) is a New Zealand writer, film director and producer, who wrote and directed 2009 film I'm Not Harry Jenson, and 2014 film The Dark Horse, for which he won Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards, and which was declared by New Zealand critics "One of the greatest New Zealand films ever made". He has also appeared earlier in his career as an actor in Shakespearean theater and several television productions including The Tribe and Being Eve, and has described how acting work "funded his early filmmaking". more…

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