Aaron Murphy, Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Alistair Browning, Marton Csokas, Sarah Peirse

While on a family vacation on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand, 13-year-old Janey begins to realize that her parents' marriage is on the rocks.

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Christine Jeffs

Release Date: October 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: May 8, 2007

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  • July 17, 2007
    This is a very tough movie. Tough characters, tough subject matter, tough to watch. I mean this in a good way. These people are very real with real problems and real attitudes. There is a raw nakedness about the film that makes it somehow tangible and sometimes uncomfortable. The...( read more) scenes are not painted nor rendered rather they are captured as they are?and they are not very pretty (save for some of the landscape). The cast are not a group of models (though the youngest boy is about as cute and wonderful an actor as they come). This movie will hit you as ?real.? The viewer is presented with a family; Husband, Wife, Daughter, Son. The Daughter appears to be the focal character, but as pivotal as she is each character is given ample time and thought. The problems that they deal with are very real. I don?t think this will be a spoiler to anyone, but in case you think it might be skip to the next paragraph. Be prepared to deal with a family on the brink of destruction, infidelity, addiction, purposelessness, coming unto teenage sexuality, and all of this combined to amount to tragedy. This film is a tragic drama that may leave you squirming a bit. I recommend this film to those who are comfortable looking at some of the more difficult things in life or who have experienced some of the same and wish to see an accurate portrayal?a film that empathizes with the pain that real life can bring.
  • August 13, 2008
    She a Beautiful Singer
  • January 7, 2008
    I can't even articulate how I feel about this film. The concepts and values of this film are so undefined as it is so how can we ( being the viewers) define it's themes? She's confused, adventerous, curious, rebelious, how ever you spell it all there titles do is lable it. which ...( read more)goes against the whole underline concept of not knowing who she is.
  • August 24, 2007
    A really impressiv film.
  • July 26, 2007
    do you know what to do?
  • July 18, 2007
    a girl finds out she's adopted, and half black half white it's a great story for anyone
  • July 6, 2007
    reading the books that this movie is based off of right now so i cant wait till im done to watch the movie
  • June 29, 2007
    A pretty good look at the problems of a hippy style family in New Zealand. Good performances all round, it's a shame the ending was so obvious from the beginiing though.
    Great shots, camera anles and editing as well.
  • June 27, 2007
    good story, horrible acting

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