Once Were Warriors [IMPORT] Rating: Release Date: 08 October, 2002 Retail Price: $37.49 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Rena Owen Temuera Morrison Kerr Smith Cliff Curtis Complete Cast (6 total)

Once Were Warriors [IMPORT] Reviews

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Once Were Warriors
This is without a doubt one of my top 3 favorite movies, and it is my FAVORITE foreign film. Extremely powerful, and moving story, it has never failed to evoke emotion from me, or those I have shared it with. I highly recommend it.

Gritty, realistic, fantastic acting, a film you will never forget
When this movie came out my younger brother went to see it and came back in awe -he said the entire theatre were crying at one part of the movie. I rushed off to see the film and have seen it several times since, it really is excellent.

As a New Zealander I can say this movie is a real depiction of the lives of some families in New Zealand. The actors are brilliant, many are familiar to me from local TV and films, but in this movie any preconceptions about the actors are brushed aside -they play their parts so well and so powerfully. Rena Owen (who plays the mother Beth "Fry-your-own-f'n-eggs" Heke) even took it to real life, a year after the film came out she was convicted and discharged for clubbing someone on the head with a pool cue at her local pub!

The violence, both at home and at the pub; the sexual abuse, the beatings and gang depictions -it all adds up to what could be a very depressing movie. But there is mercifully light at the end of the tunnel.

A must-watch film, keep your tissues handy though!

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