Boy
| Score: | / 10 |
| Released: | July 13, 2012 |
| Director: | Taika Waititi |
| Producer: | Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis, Emanuel Michael |
| Studio: | Mongrel Media |
| Cast: | James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Length: | 87 minutes |
Boy Overview
In 1984, Michael Jackson and "Thriller" are popular in the lives of New Zealand children. Boy is an 11-year-old dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives on a farm with his Nan, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers).
Shortly after Nan leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, returns home after seven years away. Having imagined his father as a deep sea diver, a war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson, 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.