The Hollow Men

Jul 7, 2008

1h 36m

★ 10.0

The inside story of a National Party election campaign

Overview

The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Vanguard Films

The Hollow Men Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Nick Blake

Self

Donald Brash

Self

John Key

Self

Bill English

Bryan Sinclair (voice)

Vaughan Slinn

Diane Foreman (voice)

Julie Thorns

Matthew Hooton (voice)

Sam Snedden

Peter Keenan (voice)

Bruce Phillips

Don Brash (voice)

Russell Campbell

Murray McCully (voice)

Mick Rose

Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice)

Matthew Chamberlain

Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader

Phil Peleton

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