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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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All Critics (9) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)

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

February 4, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment (1)
Spirituality and Practice
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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
ajv2688

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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
LittleMissBloodAndGuts
Pamela De Graff

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