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Back River Road

🎞️ Movie 75 min NZ
2001

This low-budget feature fishtails after a Mum and her teenage kids, kicking around the far north one sleepy summer. Store Santa holiday jobs, teen romance, purloined cars, pet possums, and pot deals fill out the small town shenanigans plotline. Ray Woolf plays an undercover cop, and Calvin Tuteao is a kauri-hugging suitor. Director Peter Tait (who acted in Kitchen Sink) wrote the film to showcase the charisma of kids he was teaching at Taipa College. Made for under $20,000, the film 'was bigger than Titanic' at Oruru's Swamp Palace cinema and community hall.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

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Lena Andraschko
Linda Yeats
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Billy Kristian
Police Agent
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David McCaw
Santa Trainee
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James Raharaha
George
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Te Rangi Rupapera
Marty Yeats
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Fraser Smith
Uncle Jack
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Dhaj Sumner
Judy
Peter Tait
Peter Tait
Inspector Charlie
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Josie Thomson
Ann Yeats
Calvin Tuteao
Calvin Tuteao
Joe
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Wiremu Karaitiana
Composer
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Wayne Gardiner
Cinematographer