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My Food Bag

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Welcome to the My Food Bag app! Every week, Nadia and our Development Kitchen dream up inspiring...

Wine Tourism Around the World: Development, Management and Markets

C. Michael Hall, Brock Cambourne, Liz Sharples and Niki Macionis

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Wine tourism is a rapidly growing field of industry and academic interest with changes in the...

ClareR (5711 KP) rated Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) in Movies

Jun 23, 2019

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

2016 | Action, Comedy

9.0

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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.