Synopsis
Taika Waititi, director of the romantic comedy Eagle Vs. Shark, returns with this offbeat coming-of-age story adapted from his 2003 short subject Two Cars, One Night. It's 1984, and Boy (James Rolleston) is a Maori 11-year-old growing up in a community off the coast of New Zealand. While his village feels a bit cut off from the rest of the world, contemporary pop culture still makes itself known here, and he and his pals are all enthralled with Michael Jackson and have nicknames drawn from popular TV...more