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"Once Were Warriors"
1995
Directed by Lee Tamahori

This is a revealing tale of the urban Maori, living in Auckland, New Zealand.  Alcoholism, domestic violence, poverty and hopelessness oppress a family that is only kept in tack by the strength of two women.  Beth Hake (Rena Owen), the mother who tolerates the abuse her husband heaps upon her, and her 13 year-old daughter Grace (Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell), who wakes each morning to clean up the mess left from the party the night before.  As Beth Hake struggles to maintain some semblance of family life, she repeatedly threatens to break away from her abusive husband Jake (Temuera Morrison), a tragic alcoholic who flies into violent rages when he's drunk.   As her family disintegrates, Beth remembers her noble Maori roots, finding safe harbor within her ancestral Maori family.
102 minutes.

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