Boy

On the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, Boy (James Rolleston) is eleven and devoted to Michael Jackson, and he has told his classmates his absent father is a war hero. Then Alamein (Taika Waititi) turns up, a petty criminal back in town to dig up a bag of money he buried years ago. Waititi, who also wrote the film, plays the father himself and keeps the story close to a child's view of the grown-ups around him.