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ClareR (6106 KP) rated Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) in Movies

Jun 23, 2019  
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
2016 | Action, Comedy
9
9.0 (8 Ratings)
Movie Rating
I was channel surfing (or hopping?) and chanced upon this film, and I consider myself to be very fortunate that I did. It’s a gloriously quirky, funny film of a foster child running off (by accident, I think) with his foster father.

His foster mother dies suddenly, and he knows that he’ll be put back in to a system that doesn’t care for him, so he runs away into the New Zealand bush/ forests, where his foster father finds him. Social Services start a manhunt for them, under the pretext that they know what’s best for him. They haven’t been great with him in the past - he has earned himself a reputation of a troubled child. Something which his foster mother seems to have loved out of him. She is a lovely character. As is the gloriously grumpy Sam Neill.

No description I can write can give this film its true credit - you’ll just have to watch it for yourself. It’s fantastic.
  
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ClareR (6106 KP) Jun 23, 2019

You could you could probably get it in All4 online? Worth a try?
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) Jun 23, 2019

I'll have a look. Fab.
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Yoko Ono recommended And Justice For Some: An Expose of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go in Books (curated)

 
And Justice For Some: An Expose of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go
And Justice For Some: An Expose of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go
Wendy Murphy | 2020 | Crime
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"They might get angry with me for recommending this one. That’s how amazingly courageous the author is. Wendy is a professor at the New England School of Law in Boston. Served as a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School as a former Massachusetts Prosecutor who specialized in child abuse and sex crimes. She certainly does not aspire to climb the ladder of worldly success – such as to become a supreme court judge one day, since she dares to name all the judges in this book who have wronged in their profession. I got a little scared recommending this book myself. But her fight for mandatory sentencing laws for child sex offenders has been very successful in all fifty States in United States. It also gives credit to the American public which truly care for the issue. And why the blurbs all call her Wendy, instead of Ms. Murphy? Maybe she is fortunate to be a woman so they all want to call her by her first name!"

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