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One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
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Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.
2001
Top Billed Cast
Temuera Morrison Will Bastion
Jaime Passier-Armstrong Ripeka Bastion
Lawrence Makoare Kahu Bastion
Nancy Brunning Marama
Mark Nua Iosefa
Sydney Jackson Pettigrew
George Henare Tipene
Calvin Tuteao Sergeant Ropiha
Stan Wolfgramm Timo
Sela Apera Huiarangi
William Davis Gus
Mabel Wharekawa Aunty Margaret
Patrick Wilson Government Minister of Forestry
Ross Duncan Jim Ferguson
Anaru Grant Army Major
Arthur Ranford Hardware Store Owner
Lionel Waaka Hako
Slade Leef Big SOB
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