Film details
17th October 1996 |
Once Were Warriors |
Director: Lee Tamahori |
New Zealand, 1994 |
Run Time: 102 minutes, Certificate: |
Synopsis: |
A massive success in its native New Zealand (where it outgrossed Jurassic Park)), Once Were Warriors is a hard-hitting portrait of Auckland's Maori community, centering around a mother of three battling to keep her family together, with no help from her brutish husband - but the film shows how the changes in Maori society have led to a kind of social emasculation: all these men have left is their physical strength, which is less and less needed, |
Number of reactions 43 Average score 6.6 |
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