An R4 2-disc "Collector's Edition" It is 16x9 enhanced with 5.1 surround, digitally remastered "Director's Cut" from original materials and edited to 91 minutes. The scene selections has been greatly improved with 30 divisions, compared with the Pegasus DVD of 8 divisions. The second disc contains 110+ minutes of: 2005 interviews, trailer, TV Frontline Interview by Carol Hirshfeld plus stills, promos, posters, script, storyboards and lobby cards. Interviews include: Geoff Murphy - 38:30 min., Nigel Hutchinson - 11 min., Alun Bollinger with Graeme Cowley - 8 min., Murphy with film critic Simon Morris - 8 min., stunt driver Peter Zivkovic - 6 min., Tony Barry - 5:30 min., Kelly Johnson - 5 min., John Bach - 4:30 min., Michael Horton - 2:30 min. . However there are no subtitles.
Cast: Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman, Shirley Gruar, John Bach, Bruno Lawrence.
Writers: Geoff Murphy, Ian Mune; Editor: Michael Horton; Photography: Alun Bollinger; Music: John Charles;
Producers: Geoff Murphy, Nigel Hutchinson; Director: Geoff Murphy.
An out-of-work teenager finds a driver's licence and uses it to take a hire car for a joy ride south from Kaitaia. In Auckland, during an encounter with a traffic cop, a stranger come to his aid. The latter has just seen his wife leave him to find some space in Invercargill. Having no money, the teen's hire car is his means to get to see her. This is basically a comic, buddy road film that broke many barriers. It was the first to recover its costs from the local market, and It proved that a totally New Zealand film product could be not only entertaining, but profitable. Although it has some editing and other production flaws, it was well done for such a low budget film (less than $400,000nz).
