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Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Studio: The Orchard
Directed by Taika Waititi

Jul 05, 2016 Web Exclusive
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Thirteen-year-old Ricky Baker has been chewed up by the foster system. A “bad egg” with one strike left before being sent to juvenile detention, he’s placed with a loving couple on a farm far off into the New Zealand countryside. When the foster system threatens to take him away from his new home, he takes off into the bush accompanied by his dog, Tupac, and mean old uncle (Sam Neill), sparking a well-publicized manhunt.

After deglamorizing vampires in last year’s hilarious What We Do In The Shadows, director Taika Waititi slips into Wes Anderson mode for this Barry Crump adaptation. The bold pop music queues; the way the film is divided into chapters (each introduced by supertitles); the dry humor and characters—especially the foster system stoolie who takes her job far too seriously—all draw parallels to Moonrise Kingdom, a fairly similar tale of young runaways at large. Dig away at all of that heavily-slathered quirk, however, and the film’s quite heartwarming. Neill could play a cranky old bushman in his sleep, but it’s Julian Dennison as Ricky who steals the film as a rap-loving, pre-pubescent gangster wannabe. This kid’s a find.

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