Once Were Warriors
by Lee Tamahori
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Actor: Julian Arahanga, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Rena Owen, Taungaroa Emile, Temuera MorrisonDirector: Lee Tamahori
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh
Editor: Michael Horton
Producer: Robin Scholes
Writer: Alan Duff
Writer: Riwia Brown
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Maori (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of Once Were Warriors
Movie Review: Very moving
Summary: 4 Stars
I finally bought this DVD for lack of being able to find a place that had it for rental. It is an amazing film even if it is sad and quite violent.
The film follows the lives of an inner-city Maori family and deals with issues of abuse and finding inner strength.
It is certainly not a movie that everyone will like, but it is a powerful look at what people are capable of when it comes to difficult choices.
Summary of Once Were Warriors
An urban Maori family deals with great difficulties in adjusting to normalcy in urban New Zealand.New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori (The Edge) directed this brutal but powerful story drawn from the culture of poverty and alienation enveloping contemporary Maori life. Rena Owen plays the beleaguered mother of two boys--one of whom is already in prison while the other contemplates membership in a gang--and a daughter whose potential is being smothered at home. Temuera Morrison gives an outstanding and sometimes shocking performance as the violent head of the household, more adept at keeping up his social stature within his community of friends than holding down a job. The film pulls no punches, literally and figuratively, but despite the rough going, Tamahori gives us a rare and important insight into a disenfranchised people digging down deep to find their pride. --Tom Keogh
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