Set in the year 1984, Boy, a New Zealand youth and devout Michael Jackson fan, imagines and regales others with tales of his heroic father.
But things change when his father returns home after seven absent years – just to collect a money bag that he buried years earlier – as Boy finds that he's a far cry from the man he imagined.
The 2010 sophomore feature film from writer-director Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok), Boy is a coming-of-age comedy that explores the failings of hero-worship and the realities that hit us as children, alongside the impact of the family we are attached to, in a genuinely heartfelt and hilarious story.
Screening as part of the Showroom's Young Programmers Return to Youth film festival. With an introduction and a screening of the short film See ya, Mr Banno! by Yoko Yuki.
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