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Willa O'Neill | ... | Emma | |
Neill Rea | ... | Scott | |
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Ashleigh Seagar | ... | Nicola |
Taika Waititi | ... | Alex (as Taika Cohen) | |
Charlie Bleakley | ... | Graham | |
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Jon Brazier | ... | Kevin |
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Mark Neilson | ... | Gordy |
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Mark Dudfield | ... | The Yams |
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Pat Soper | ||
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Dave Dudfield | ||
Andrew Munro | |||
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David Kilgour | ... | The Clean |
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Lanfranco Perini | ||
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Robert Yeats | ||
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Thomas Bell |
Five Otago University students ('Scarfies') decide to squat in an empty house. They discover a locked room that holds a hidden treasure - a large quantity of marijuana. What happens when the cash-strapped students decide to become amateur druglords for the week? And what exactly should they do about the owner of the crop? Written by Anonymous
SCARFIES is a good movie, with intense situations and even well thought out responses by the characters to said intense situations. Unfortunately the whole thing collapses with a 10-minute farcical ending that begs to be redone.
Also, I've read people comment that the kids were complex. Wow. Did we see the same movie? Let's see: The a$$hole guy/bad boy; the rich girl who falls for the bad boy; the sensitive guy; the weirdo kid who wants to get in the rich girl's pants; and the sensitive girl. Gee, how complex.
Nothing too great. Good, decent movie, but a really, really stupid ending that cheats. A better ending would have offered us something dark, something bloody. Instead we get an ending that "makes everything all right". I thought only Hollywood did crap like this. Apparently not.