New film "Boy" about boy who idolizes Michael Jackson

[emulik]

 New film is coming to theaters in March 2012. It is called "Boy".

Synopsis.
The year is 1984 and, somewhere along the rural East Coast of New Zealand, lives Boy who idolizes pop star Michael Jackson. Boy lives with his brother Rocky, a clan of cousins and his Nan. Boy also idolizes his father, Alamein, who is the heroic subject of his son’s fantasies, but, in reality, he is serving time in prison for robbery. When Alamein returns home after a 7-year absence, Boy must let go of the father of his dreams to face reality.

In Theaters

March 2, 2012

Genres

Foreign, Drama

Run Time

1 hour 27 minutes

Taika Waititi  Director

Do not forget to watch trailer, in 1:10 min. "LOVE" on fingers, in 1:11 min "Front"  lolol/ on the chest of boy:

[Adi]

Wow...looks great. I have to see this.

Here is the webpage for the movie:

http://www.boythemovie.co.nz/

[emulik]

Wow...looks great. I have to see this.

Here is the webpage for the movie:

http://www.boythemovie.co.nz/

You are right! And thank you for that website :)

[applehead250609]

New film is coming to theaters in March 2012. It is called "Boy".

Synopsis.
The year is 1984 and, somewhere along the rural East Coast of New Zealand, lives Boy who idolizes pop star Michael Jackson. Boy lives with his brother Rocky, a clan of cousins and his Nan. Boy also idolizes his father, Alamein, who is the heroic subject of his son’s fantasies, but, in reality, he is serving time in prison for robbery. When Alamein returns home after a 7-year absence, Boy must let go of the father of his dreams to face reality.

In Theaters

March 2, 2012

Genres

Foreign, Drama

Run Time

1 hour 27 minutes

Taika Waititi  Director

Do not forget to watch trailer, in 1:10 min. "LOVE" on fingers, in 1:11 min "Front"  lolol/ on the chest of boy:

Thank you Emulik for this  bearhug ,it seems an good movie  :)  !!!!!
Here is one of Michael's lovely drawing with a BOY  :-*:

[emulik]

@you are welcome Applehead :)
that drawing is very cute bounce/

[GINAFELICIA]

wow thank you so much for posting this

[emulik]

wow thank you so much for posting this

you are welcome Gina  :)  it looks like great film!

[veronicafall]

This is weird...  :?
In the cast there is a character named Murray... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560139/

[everlastinglove_MJ]

Thanks for giving a link of this movie :)
The trailer looks promising.
and I saw "front" :shock:  8-) When it's available here I'll definitely watch it.

L.O.V.E.

[lilwendy]

 /bravo/Well I'm thoroughly confused.  This is not new... I saw this last year! Is it possible it was at a film festival?  I'm sure I have this on my computer.

:shock:

Edit: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_(2010_film)

This is the one I saw released in 2010. Hmmmm

[emulik]

@everlastinglove..you are welcome :) and that "Front" on the chest of boy is quite interesting, but maybe/probably only coincidence. We will see.

@lilwendy..it does say that release year is 2010, but to theathers it is going on March 2,2012...really weird..

[Adi]

A character named Murray......and another interesting thing too is the soundtrack to the movie is by a band called "The Pheonix Foundation" (we all know what a Pheonix represents) and one of the band members is named Conrad!   http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_Foundation

I would love to know in what context/why the boy has "Front" written on his chest in that scene...when I saw that my eyes went   fresse/

[skyways]

Interesting how his board reads -- WELCOME HOME DADDY@@

isnt we can say Michael welcome home TOO?

L.O.V.E.!!

[nick_93]

This has been out for a couple of years now, I have it on DVD. It doesn't really seem to be about MJ, the kids idolizes him and wants to be like him but it's generally a story of him getting to know his Dad who was absent most of his childhood.

[emulik]

A character named Murray......and another interesting thing too is the soundtrack to the movie is by a band called "The Pheonix Foundation" (we all know what a Pheonix represents) and one of the band members is named Conrad!   http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_Foundation

I would love to know in what context/why the boy has "Front" written on his chest in that scene...when I saw that my eyes went   fresse/

interesting Adi..I would like to know that too..I wish we have more snippets.