New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori (The Edge) directed this brutal but powerful story drawn from the culture of poverty and alienation enveloping contemporary Maori life. Rena Owen plays the beleaguered mother of two boys--one of whom is already in prison while the other contemplates membership in a gang--and a daughter whose potential is being smothered at home. Temuera Morrison gives an outstanding and sometimes shocking performance as the violent head of the household, more adept at keeping up his social stature within his community of friends than holding down... a job. Once Were Warriors pulls no punches, literally and figuratively, but despite the rough going, Tamahori gives us a rare and important insight into a people digging down deep to find their pride. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com [show more]
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A New Zealand film looking at the underworld Maori life of Auckland. A woman is on the verge of a nervous breakdown after 18 years of marriage to her violent husband, who repeatedly beat her over the years but maintained that he loved her. The ramifications of this constant turmoil take their toll - her family starts to split as one of her sons joins a gang and the other ends up in a welfare home. The gifted daughter seems unaffected by the disfunctional family unit, but soon she encounters events that changes the family's life forever.
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