Movie Review Hunt for the Wilder People 2016 Sundance Film

A hard-to-handle foster kid from the big city and a grouchy bushman in his sixties are forced to forge an unlikely alliance to survive in the New Zealand wilderness in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a deliciously good time at the movies. An adaptation of Wild Pork and Watercress from the late and legendary New Zealand outdoorsman and novelist Barry Crumb, this familiar but perfectly balanced blend of drama and comedy, action and heart was directed by actor-director Taika Waititi, known for his work on projects such as the vampire mockumentary What We Do In the Shadows and also the director of the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok.

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Production companies: Defender Films, Piki Films, Curious

Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Oscar Kightley, Cohen Holloway, Stan Walker, Mike Minogue, Rhys Darby

Director: Taika Waititi

Screenplay: Taika Waititi, based on Barry Crump’s Wild Pork and Watercress

Producers: Carthew Neal, Leanne Saunders, Taika Waititi, Matt Noonan

Executive producers: James Wallace, Charlie McClellan

Director of photography: Lachlan Milne

Production designer: Neville Stevenson

Costume designer: Kristin Seth

Editors: Luke Haigh, Tom Eagles, Yana Gorskaya

Music: Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott, Conrad Wedde

Casting: Stuart Turner

Sales: Protagonist Pictures

No rating, 101 minutes