Kino Lorber will bring to Blu-ray New Zealand director Taika Waititi's dramedy Boy (2010), starring James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Cherilee Martin, and Taika Waititi. The preliminary release date set by the studio is July 9th.
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king—even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version—an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.
Inspired by his Oscar-nominated short, Two Cars, One Night, Taika Waititi offers a charming, funny, and earnest coming-of-age story where everybody has some coming of age to do—particularly Alamein (affably played by Waititi himself). Never short on humor, Waititi's story is ultimately about three boys (one grown) reconciling fantasy with reality.
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Special Features:
Two Cars, One Night - a short film by Taika Waititi