.....as a Netflix rental and thought it was the best movie I've seen anywhere since I watched "Crash" in a theater.

Think of "Whale Rider," another excellent film about the lives of modern Maori tribes people in New Zealand, meeting the tragedy of Tennessee Williams, on steroids.

This flick has excellent acting and I found the story riveting.

IMHO, all the performances are nothing less than amazing and the range of emotions portrayed is complete in its scope.

It's a very powerful movie.

Don't expect a happy ending.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/

I thought it rivaled "City of God" as an illuminating look into another culture and the human condition.



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cool.

Thanks for the review. I always wanted to check that movie out. Even more so when I found out that Jango Fett was in it.

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Yeah, I recognized the two adult leads as having played a couple of roles each in "Star Wars."

I couldn't have told you what characters they were for George Lucas though.

I even thought Jar Jar might show up.



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That's what we called our one buddy who was always porking fat chicks. He had a different one every 2 weeks or so, it was uncanny.

And then we found the video and it went from "uncanny" to "life-ruining."


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I thought Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors are both excellent movies.

What character did the second adult lead play in Star Wars?

Go to the link in my initial post and then click on the actors' names to get a filmography.



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