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Smash Palace (1981)

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A key entry in the "renaissance" of the New Zealand film industry, Smash Palace stars Bruno Lawrence as an ex-racing champ. Returning home to take over his late father's business, Lawrence finds that his sophisticated European wife Anna Jemison is bored beyond measure at her new existence. She throws him over in favor of his best friend, policeman Keith Aberdein. Lawrence might have been able to weather his wife's leaving him, but it is too much to bear when she takes their daughter with her.

R, 1 hr. 40 min.

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Directed By: Roger Donaldson

Cast

Bruno Lawrence
Al Shaw
Anna Jemison
Jacqui Shaw
Greer Robson
Georgie Shaw
Keith Aberdein
Ray Foley
Terence Donovan
Sean Duffy
Frank
Desmond Kelly (II)
Tiny
Anna Maria Monticelli
Jacqui Shaw
Margaret Umbers
Druggist's assistant
Keir Robson
Frank Hoyt Taylor

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Smash Palace is a revealing and involving Australian portrait of splitting up.

February 4, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

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I found this movie to be incredibly slow paced, confusing, downright boring, and every time it seemed like something exciting would happen, it wouldn't. At least not until the disappointing end of the movie. For the most part I couldn't understand what the actors were saying, whispering their lines in their New Zealand

January 28, 2012

AJ Verser

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This is a real gem of a hard to find, arcane and unusual character study. I appreciate it more the older I get. One of the more interesting and forgotten films to come out of New Zealand. The car wrecking yard Smash Palace still exists today, and is located in Horopito, near Ohakune.

January 31, 2009

Pamela De Graff

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