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Fracture (2004 Film)
''Fracture'' is a 2004 New Zealand film written and directed by Larry Parr and based on the novel by Maurice Gee. The film is set in Wellington and stars Kate Elliott, Jared Turner and John Noble. The film was met with positive reviews and was the second highest grossing local film at the New Zealand box office in 2004 behind '' In My Father's Den''. Plot A young solo mother (Elliott) loves her son and his needs are foremost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother (Turner), even as her fundamentalist mother cruelly rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult. Cast Tagline ''A single crack can shatter everything.'' Production The film had originally been set for a 2003 release but was delayed during production by the dissolution of director Larry Parr's production company Kahukura Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Parr (director)
Larry George Parr , a New Zealand film and television producer, writer, and director, has been involved in the New Zealand film industry since the 1970s. Career Parr was an associate producer on '' Sleeping Dogs'' (1977; Roger Donaldson, director), which provided Sam Neill his first major role in a feature film. New Zealand actors Ian Mune and Don Selwyn were also featured; Donna Akersten, Dorothy McKegg, and Davina Whitehouse also had roles. American actor Warren Oates had a small but memorable role, as well. The Director of Photography was Michael Seresin; Alun Bollinger was the gaffer. Stewart Main and Annie Collins were assistant editors; Geoff Murphy was the "Special FX Director." Dorthe Scheffmann and Pat Murphy were production assistants. While a few of these names would have been familiar within New Zealand theatre at the time, this film was a first opportunity to work on a feature-length narrative film for most of the people involved. Funding for the film came in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki
Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki is a New Zealand actress. Her debut performance was in the critically acclaimed film ''Rain''. The Seattle PI newspaper has described the film as "an exquisitely mixed and applied palette of color and hue to help her story. ''Rain'' is gorgeously evocative visually and draws us in as seductively ... a wonderful metaphor for a film that is largely successful". Agent Sharon Power Filmography *''Rain'' (2001) *''Fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...'' (2004) References External links * * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand film actresses {{NewZealand-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Crime Drama Films
New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 Songs * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * "New" (No Doubt song), 1999 *"new", by Loona from '' Yves'', 2017 *"The New", by Interpol from ''Turn On the Bright Lights'', 2002 Acronyms * Net economic welfare, a proposed macroeconomic indicator * Net explosive weight, also known as net explosive quantity * Network of enlightened Women, a conservative university women's organization * Next Entertainment World, a South Korean film distribution company Identification codes * Nepal Bhasa language ISO 639 language code * New Century Financial Corporation (NYSE stock abbreviation) * Northeast Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion in the northeastern United States Transport * New Orleans Lakefront Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Films
2004 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. ''Shrek 2'' was the year's top-grossing film, and '' Million Dollar Baby'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy described 2004 as "a banner year for actors, particularly men." He went on to emphasize, "I can't think of another year in which there were so many good performances, in every genre. It was a year in which we saw the entire spectrum of demographics displayed on the big screen, from vet actors such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, to seniors such as Pacino, De Niro, and Hoffman, to newcomers such as Topher Grace. As always, though, the center of the male acting pyramid is occupied by actors in their forties and fifties, such as Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Kevin Kline, Don Cheadle, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NZ On Screen
NZ On Screen is a state-funded online promotional showcase of New Zealand television and film. Funded by NZ On Air, it provides free worldwide access to NZ-produced television, film and music videos. Content is streamed and the webpages provide authoritative background information. The site was launched in October 2008 and is updated constantly. It provides titles in full or as excerpts, with background notes, photographs and profiles of key cast and crew. All material is rights-cleared and there is some content now on the site that had not been seen since its mid-twentieth century screening. The ScreenTalk section is a videoblog with interviews with people from the NZ television and film industry – including Florian Habicht, Rena Owen, Margaret Mahy, Vincent Ward and Sam Neill. The site won a Qantas Media Award The New Zealand Newspaper Publishers’ Association awards are annual New Zealand media awards recognising excellence in the news print media. The first awards w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahukura Productions , butterfly (known as ''kahukura'' in Māori)
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The Māori name Kahukura (''red cloak'') may refer to: * Kahukura (mythology), a figure from Māori mythology * Kahukura (sport), a group of affiliated sports clubs from Rotorua *Kahukura Bentson (born 1978), New Zealand boxer *Kahukura Marine Reserve, a Fiordland's marine reserve in the Gold Arm of Charles Sound, South Island, New Zealand *New Zealand red admiral The New Zealand red admiral (''Vanessa gonerilla'') is a butterfly endemic to New Zealand. Its Māori name is ''kahukura,'' which means "red cloak". The red admiral is a member of the family Nymphalidae, the subfamily Nymphalinae and the tribe N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jed Brophy
Jed Brophy (born 29 October 1963) is an actor from New Zealand. He has appeared in several of Peter Jackson's films, including ''Braindead'', ''Heavenly Creatures'', ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, and ''King Kong''. Brophy also appears as the dwarf Nori in ''The Hobbit'' films. Biography Brophy was born in Taihape in 1963. He grew up in Mataroa and went to school at Mataroa Primary School and Palmerston North Boys' High School. He was educated at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, graduating in 1987 with a Diploma in Acting. He started acting in stage productions in Wellington in the 1980s. He became well known for his role in Gary Henderson's play ''Skin Tight,'' which he performed hundreds of times over numerous tours. When it was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1998 it won the Scotsman Fringe First Award. The first screen role Brophy played was in 1988 in ''Small War on the Edge of Town'' produced by the National Film Unit. He has been p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy Davis
Tammy Davis is a New Zealand actor, best known for his role as Munter on the hit New Zealand comedy-drama '' Outrageous Fortune''. He grew up in Raetihi, New Zealand. In August 2021, it was announced that he would feature in the 2021 Season of Celebrity Treasure Island 2021. Career Davis has performed in both film and television, including ''Black Sheep'', ''Whale Rider'' and in Taika Waititi's short film ''Tama Tu''. He also starred as Mookie in '' What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?'', the sequel to ''Once Were Warriors''. Davis made his feature film direction debut on the 2015 film, ''Born to Dance'', released in September 2015. He is a host on the breakfast show on George FM. In 2020, Davis starred as Vice Principal Trev in ''The Eggplant'', a New Zealand-teen-drama crime-comedy series released to TVNZ OnDemand and YouTube. Filmography Television Film Personal life Of Māori descent, he identifies with Ngāti Rangi and Atihaunui a Paparangi and is the half brother of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Harcourt
Miranda Catherine Millais Harcourt (born 1962) is a New Zealand actress and acting coach. Harcourt's acting career began playing boy characters on Radio New Zealand in the early 1970s. She is best known for her role as Gemma in the 1980s TV drama series ''Gloss''. Harcourt spent three years acting on the show, and her character was so despicable that people spat at and insulted Harcourt in public. Harcourt received a nomination in the 1989 Film and TV Awards for best actress for the role. Biography Harcourt graduated from Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, in 1984. In 1990, a sponsored year at London's Central School of Speech and Drama led to an exploration of drama therapy in psychiatric institutions, with the deaf, and in prisons – the latter inspiring her collaboration with writer William Brandt for the solo play ''Verbatim'', where Harcourt acted, solo, portraying nine characters, inmates' relatives, and victims' families. Harcourt was also a pioneer of verbati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Elliott (actress)
Kate Elliott (born 30 December 1981) is a New Zealand television and film actress. She was born in and currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand. Kate played the role of one of the "Liberators" in ''The Cult''. More recently, she has acted in ''The Insider's Guide To Love'', The Locals, Fracture, and Toy Love. She played ''Yakut'', an Amazon, in several episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess, 1998–2000. Elliott also assumed the role of ''Lily'' in Cleopatra 2525. She plays a vampire in a film called 30 Days Of Night and currently plays the role of Detective Jess Savage in the New Zealand mini-series '' The Gulf''. She was married to Pluto's lead singer, Milan Borich, on 17 January 2006. They have a daughter. In 2016 she eloped with David Benge, managing director of the New Zealand office of worldwide media company VICE A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In My Father's Den (film)
''In My Father's Den'' is a 2004 New Zealand film written and directed by Brad McGann and starring Matthew Macfadyen and Emily Barclay. It is based on the novel of the same title by Maurice Gee. The film was released in October 2004 to glowing reviews. Plot Following the death of his father Jeff (Matthew Chamberlain), renowned war photographer Paul Prior ( Matthew Macfadyen) returns to his hometown in the South Island of New Zealand. Paul also reunites with his younger brother Andrew (Colin Moy), a pious local ostrich farmer, who is married to the very religious Penny (Miranda Otto). Under Andrew's pressure, Paul reluctantly prolongs his stay to help sort out the sale of their father's cottage and the adjoining orchard. Returning to the dilapidated family property, Paul revisits his father's makeshift den in the equipment shed. Jeff, who secretly harboured a love of wine, literature, and free-thinking philosophy, found solace in the den away from his puritanical wife Iris ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |