River Queen (2005)

River Queen (2005) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$21.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Vincent Ward

Written By:
Vincent Ward

Actors:
Samantha Morton ..... Sarah O'Brien
Kiefer Sutherland ..... Doyle
Cliff Curtis ..... Wiremu
Temuera Morrison ..... Te Kai Po
Anton Lesser ..... Baine
Rawiri Pene ..... Boy
Stephen Rea ..... Francis
Wi Kuki Kaa ..... Old Rangi
Mark Ruka ..... Hone
Tyson Reweti ..... Tommy Boy
Grayson Putu ..... Young Wiremu
Nathan Passfield ..... Boy (7) Years
Laura Coyte Douglas ..... Theresa
Julie Ranginui ..... Old Puhi
Brandon Lakshman ..... Timoti

Synopsis:

A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's wilderness, which the Maori saw as a threat to their way of life. However, some outsiders had made a home in New Zealand with the cooperation of the Maori, and an Irish settlement had been established, with Francis (Stephen Rea), the colony's doctor, bringing his daughter Sarah (Samantha Morton) with him to this new land. Sarah becomes acquainted with the son of one of the Maori leaders, and in time their friendship grows into something deeper. When Sarah discovers she's pregnant with the chief's son's child, the father has been called off to fight against the Europeans, and by the time her son is born, his father is dead. Sarah raises her child, whom she simply calls 'Boy,' but when Boy reaches the age of six, he's abducted by his father's family, who believes he should grow up among the Maori. Fearing further reprisals, Francis returns to Ireland, but Sarah stays behind to care for the sick and look for her son. Years later, while in search of Boy, Sarah encounters Wiremu (Cliff Curtis), a Maori warrior whose father Te Kai Po (Temuera Morrison) is ill. When Wiremu learns that Sarah is well versed in medicine, he makes an offer -- if she will treat Te Kai Po and return him to health, he will find Boy. Sarah is able to cure Te Kai Po's ailment, and Wiremu returns the now-teenaged Boy (David Rawiri Pene) to his mother. Boy is not eager to leave behind the Maori people who have become his family, and he and Sarah stay with Te Kai Po's tribe for a while, but in time she is drawn back to the Irish colony, where she finds herself torn between Doyle (Kiefer Sutherland), the soldier who loves her and wishes to protect her, and Wiremu, who she has grown to love.

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

Set in New Zealand in 1868. Tells the tale of a woman forced to travel deep into Maori territory to rescue her son.

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