We're Here To Help

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
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The idea for We're Here to Help had its genesis when the film's writer and director Jonothan Cullinane watched the Oscar-winning film Erin Brockovich and was struck by the resonance of such 'David and...

New Zealand Production

Feature 2007 Drama 85.00 minutes

WHTH 1 28 Erik Thomson as Dave Henderson29

In February 1994, Christchurch businessman Dave Henderson walked into the Inland Revenue Department. He was not a happy man. His girlfriend had recently been there to collect a refund Dave’s company was owed. An IRD staff member made some suggestive comments to her. Dave told the IRD officer that if he ever talked to one of his employees like that again he would kick his “fat arse from one end of Cashel Street to the other”. And so began a saga of Kafkaesque and yet comedic proportions.