Came a Hot Friday

Oct 4, 1985

1h 41m

★ 6.5

Overview

Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

New Zealand National Film Unit

Shaker Run Productions

Came a Hot Friday Trailers

Cast

Wes Pennington

Peter Bland

Cyril Kidman

Phillip Gordon

Don Jackson

Michael Lawrence

The Tainuia Kid

Billy T. James

Sel Bishop

Marshall Napier

Norm Cray

Don Selwyn

Esmerelda

Marise Wipani

14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to his first school dance. Meanwhile everywhere he seems to look, images of men are taking control of his imagination. In Stewart Main's comical coming of age story Steve escapes his parents' good wishes, to discover his true desires. They aren't quite what his no-nonsense father had in mind.

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