Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand > Comedy: 172 Films to Rent
- Price of Milk, The (2000)
- Dir. Harry Sinclair
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Karl Urban, Willa O'Neill…
- For young–marrieds Danielle Cormack and Karl Urban, the cost of farming their 117 cows is a strange exile in the NZ backblocks...
Milking…
- Savage Honeymoon (2000)
- Dir. Mark Beesley
Feat. Nicholas Eadie, Perry Piercy, Elizabeth Hawthorne…
- Uncomplicated domestic comedy about a family of 'Westies' – leather clad, bike–straddling, booze–swilling fun–lovers living…
- Stickmen (2000)
- Dir. Hamish Rothwell
Feat. Robbie Magasiva, Scott Wills, Simone Kessell…
- A crowd–pleasing and assured sports–fetish movie, this doesn't shy from being dubbed 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Pool Cues', with its…
- Scarfies (1999)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Neill Rea, Taika Waititi, Willa O'Neill…
- Kiwi icons – Dunedin, rugby, Flying Nun music, student life – upholster a formula but well–executed crime plot in which five…
- I'll Make You Happy (1998)
- Dir. Athina Tsoulis
Feat. Jodie Rimmer, Michael Hurst
- A comical hotchpotch set among Auckland's K–Road denizens, featuring Jodie Rimmer as a peppy prositute who plots to rip–off pimp Michael…
- Via Satellite (1998)
- Dir. Anthony McCarten
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Timothy Balme, Rima Te Wiata…
- Surprise hit on its cinema release, Anthony McCarten's (writer of hit stageplay "Ladies Night") small–scale comedy contrasts the kitsch…
- Telly Laughs (TV Series) (1997-1998)
- A spin–off of SKITZ, this irreverent Kiwi comedy hour parodies a variety of popular television shows, movies and commercials.
DVD features…
- Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997)
- Dir. Harry Sinclair
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Joel Tobeck, Ian Hughes…
- The local sensation of the '97 year that far too few Kiwis saw on the big screen, this fresh and assured comic tableau sees various appealing…
- Topp Twins, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Jools Topp, Lynda Topp
- Choice episodes from Lynda and Jools' brazenly Kiwi hit comedy series, with Camp Mother and Leader, Ken and Ken and other beloved character pairings…
- Bonjour Timothy (1996)
- Dir. Wayne Tourell
Feat. Dean O'Gorman, Sabine Karsenti, Angela Bloomfield
- Dean O'Gorman and Sabine Karsenti get a dose of culture shock as international exchange students in this Kiwi–French Canadian…