A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Casts Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga, Taungaroa Emile, Rachael Morris Jr., Joseph Kairau, Cliff Curtis, Pete Smith, George Henare
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Corporate
Death Goes to School
Russian Dolls
2nd Serve
The Miracle Worker
The Nina B. Affair
The Big Black Sow
Lifted
Dolores Claiborne
In Her Shoes
The Hudsucker Proxy
Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
After This Our Exile
Spun
Dr. Alemán
Lilya 4-ever
Midnight Cowboy
Baise-moi
Bambi
Battle Royale
SIMILAR MOVIES
Corporate
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 2017
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.Death Goes to School
IMDB 5.4 | May , 1953
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.Russian Dolls
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 2005
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.2nd Serve
IMDB 4.4 | Oct , 2012
(Long Synopsis) "When former tennis pro Owen “Game Set” Match gets fired from his cushy job instructing at the affluent Fountain Club, he’s forced to take a position at the gritty public courts of the Derby City Recreation Center. There he contends with his new co-workers, a ragtag group of tennis pro misfits; his boss Sherry, a strong-willed, single mother; and her son Jake, a goth teenager and secret tennis hopeful. Slowly Owen begins to win over his colleagues, mend his broken friendships and help Jake fix his serve … and develops a romantic connection with Sherry, despite her insistence that she doesn't date tennis pros. Just when things seem to be looking up, Owen’s former boss and court nemesis challenges the Derby City club to a showdown in the annual Combo Cup tennis tournament. As he leads his team of oddball amateurs, Owen learns the most valuable lesson of all … On the court or off, everyone deserves a second chance!"The Miracle Worker
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 1979
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever. Television remake of the 1962 film which also starred Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller.The Nina B. Affair
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 1961
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.The Big Black Sow
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1971
Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.Lifted
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 2015
A little girl and her inventor father celebrate the success of their greatest dream, on a day she will never forget.Dolores Claiborne
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1995
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.In Her Shoes
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2005
Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives, the sisters face some complicated truths about themselves and their family.The Hudsucker Proxy
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1994
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2003
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.After This Our Exile
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 2006
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.Spun
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 2003
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.Dr. Alemán
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 2008
Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly for shotgun wounds, while in the streets he falls in love with a stall-holder who cares for some of the children involved in drug trafficking and criminal violence. Alienating his colleagues and his host family while befriending the kids, he soon finds himself trapped in the center of the violent conflict between the gangs and has to come to a decision.Lilya 4-ever
IMDB 7.6 | Aug , 2002
Lilya Michailova lives in poverty, dreaming of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her neglectful aunt. Desperate for money, Lilya starts working as a prostitute, and meets Andrei, who offers her a good job in Sweden. However, upon arrival, her life quickly enters a downward spiral.Midnight Cowboy
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1969
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.Baise-moi
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 2000
Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!Bambi
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1942
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.Battle Royale
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2000
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.