“A beautifully observed, moving drama.. a must for all mothers and daughters”
Francesca Rudkin, Newstalk ZB
“A stirring, intimate work”
Tom Augustine, View Magazine
“Extraordinarily well done”
Graeme Tuckett, The Post
In NZ Cinemas May 14
Special Q&A Screenings
Join director Chelsie Preston Crayford, and stars Lisa Harrow and Anais Shand for an in-person Q&A screening.
Rialto Newmarket, Friday 8 May, 6:00pm
AucklandJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford, Lisa Harrow and Anais ShandMatakana Cinema, Saturday 9 May, 12:45pm
AucklandJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford, Lisa Harrow and Anais ShandPenthouse Cinema, Sunday May 10, 5:30pm
WellingtonJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford, Lisa Harrow and Anais ShandSilky Otter Cinemas, Sat 16 May
QueenstownJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford
AucklandJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford, Lisa Harrow and Anais ShandMatakana Cinema, Saturday 9 May, 12:45pm
AucklandJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford, Lisa Harrow and Anais ShandPenthouse Cinema, Sunday May 10, 5:30pm
WellingtonJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford, Lisa Harrow and Anais ShandSilky Otter Cinemas, Sat 16 May
QueenstownJoined by director Chelsie Preston Crayford
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When memory begins to fade, love is put to the test.
Three generations living under one leaky Wellington roof in 2003, all on the brink of transformation. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for validation in all the wrong places. Her mother Maxine, 52, a formidable single-mother filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, is finally offered a greenlight - if she can just land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico. But when Huia’s mind begins to fail her, the family is thrust into chaos. Can the maternal line hold together while everything is throwing them apart? A funny, emotional film about the big small things that shape us forever, and the love that must prevail.
Sex scenes, offensive language & drug use.
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