Set on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Due to the films success in New Zealand, the song "Poi E", originally released in 1984, re-entered the New Zealand charts and reached number 3 on May 24 2010. It is the only New Zealand song to chart over three decades.
Mr. Langston:
People call me a dumb honky all the time. I don't go round punching them.
Boy:
Why not?
Mr. Langston:
Because they're usually children.
The plastic road markers that "Boy" was playing with and bending down on the side of the road were not found anywhere in New Zealand until around 1990. The film is set 6 years earlier when wooden road markers were in use.
The last shot after the credits is of Leaf, the goat, walking across a dance floor where the floor lights up as he walks on it.
English, Maori
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