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Eagle vs Shark - Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
There's someone for everyone... apparently.
Lily (Loren Horsley) looks funny, walks funny, talks funny and dresses badly.
Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) looks funny, talks funny, dresses badly and has no idea he is a loser.
And then there's the rest of the family...
Together Lily and Jarrod discover that finding love means loving who you really are.
Eagle vs Shark is the tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love; through revenge on high-school bullies, burgers and video games.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film New Zealand comedy teen school drama misfit social revenge bully love romance
Persons of interest
- Jemaine Clement .... Jarrod
- Taika Cohen .... Gordon
- Aaron Cortesi .... Duncan
- David Fane .... Eric Elisi
- Adam Gardiner .... Tony
- Cori Gonzales-Macuer .... Mark
- Craig Hall .... Doug Davis
- Tanea Heke .... Jarrod's Mum
- Morag Hills .... Vinny
- Cohen Holloway .... Mason
- Loren Horsley .... Lily
- Rachel House .... Nancy
- Gentiane Lupi .... Tracy
- Chelsie Preston-Crayford .... Jenny
- Bernard Stewart .... Zane
- Joel Tobeck .... Damien
- Taika Waititi .... Screenwriter
- Taika Waititi .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Eagle vs Shark official movie site
- Eagle vs Shark film production notes
- Eagle vs Shark QuickTime movie trailers
- Awards and film festivals:
- Berlin International Film Festival 2006: Generation
- Sundance Film Festival 2007: Nominated: Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema - Dramatic (Taika Cohen)
- See also Loser, Napoleon Dynamite
- Studios and distributors:
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
Watching low-end losers with no social skills trying to fall in love is like going to a freak show. I know that ugly people want sex, too, but these people are the ones you want to believe don't even know about relationships let alone have them. It's a bit like anti-porn.
Because it's so unpleasant to watch Eagle vs Shark makes you squirm. [Readers should be aware that, as a former international model, Special Agent Matti is one of the Beautiful People™ - Director of Intelligence.] It's an unlikely concept for a comedy but the Kiwis are renown for the dry blackness of their sense of humour. Jemaine Clement and Loren Horsley underplay their characters nicely; it's as if they're space aliens come to live among us - hearing everything we say but listening only to their Universal Translators. Eek.
The New Zealand comedy movie Eagle vs Shark is directed by Taika Waititi and stars Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement.
Security censorship classification
M (Moderate coarse language, moderate sexual references)
Surveillance time
86 minutes (1:26 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 6 December 2007
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