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Name: New Zealand Film Commission
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Life for Liz is circumscribed by the respectable veneer of an affluent community. The streets she walks are clean and safe. She sleeps between matched sheets, eats at good restaurants. She has never told a deliberate lie or used foul language in...

New Zealand Production

Feature 1984 Drama 106.00 minutes

Liz Harvey is affluent, middle class, thirty-two and white. Tug (Thomas) Morton, 16, lives on the street, doesn't know his family, is sixteen and Ploynesian. Their struggle to forge a relationship across the barriers of age, colour and class is poignant, gritty, funny and in the end, heart-warmingly triumphant.