DramaYear2016Duration1h 14mIMDb6.7

Orphans & Kingdoms

Name: Orphans & Kingdoms
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016-04-14
Rating: 6.7

Drama

One night. One house. One Island. Everything changes for a lonely man and three delinquent kids.

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Colin Moy

Jeremy Flynn

Calae Hignett-Morgan

Kenae

Hanelle Harris

Tibs

Jesse James Rehu Pickery

Jesse

Fin McLachlan

Scotty Flynn

Jason Bock

Wharf Security Guard

Angela Murphy

Rich Lady

Eryn Wilson

Ute Driver

Fraser Brown

Constable Mike Layton

Samantha Jukes

Monica

Stephen Hollins

Husband

De Garnham Thomas

Waiheke Shop Guy

Hamish Mortland

St John Ambulance Officer

Alistair Babbage

Sealink Crew

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Mina ShilongoNov 22, 2022

Low budget and local all too often translate to what's basically a TV movie bunged up on the big screen. In his feature debut, writer/director Paolo Rotondo deftly avoids all the usual clichés and pitfalls, cleverly keeping the action largely confined to a home under siege, and delivering that rarest of micro-budget gems - a real honest-to-the-moniker movie. Hanelle Harris, Jesse-James Rehu Pickery, and Calae Hignett-Morgan are never less than convincing as the tearaway teens, escaping the Auckland mainland to hang out, shoplift and purse-snatch on Waiheke Island, before breaking in to an upmarket house to raid the drinks cabinet and graffiti the walls. The young acting trio bring a real sense of loving, if broken, family, and a palpable air of menace to the owner of the upmarket beachfront home they invade. The politics of privilege and race, have and have-nots, may be contentious, but this is a New Zealand film with a wider underlying message about whanau that's heartfelt and, ultimately, hits home. As the troubled delinquents tell their equally troubled captive: "You're our family. We're wards of the state - we're everyone's kids." As the home owner turned hostage, Colin Moy quietly radiates the sense of a man broken by his spiritual burden. Tough, tense, realistic and rough, deliberately paced, and never shirking moments of silence, violence and, ultimately, reconciliation, Orphans and Kingdoms is a tightly scripted, sincerely acted, ably-directed/shot/soundtracked and edited example of a little film with a big heart, crafted with a care and commendable commitment that belies its humble budget and technical constraints.

Arif KhatriNov 22, 2022

At first I thought it might be like ugh...but I keeping watch and it getting better and better til the end. I loved it. It about 3 kids go island and need a place to stay but broke in and one man came home. One of kid hurt himself and got stuck but it not what you think and it got interested about what's going on with everyone story. Good so far

laurakingnchamaNov 22, 2022

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