Came a Hot Friday

1985
PG
1h 41m

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This eccentric rural New Zealand tale follows two con men as they attempt to trick a small town into their illegal gambling scheme.This eccentric rural New Zealand tale follows two con men as they attempt to trick a small town into their illegal gambling scheme.This eccentric rural New Zealand tale follows two con men as they attempt to trick a small town into their illegal gambling scheme.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 7 wins total

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Trivia
Final theatrical feature film of actor Prince Tui Teka who played a saxophonist.

Goofs
The brand of green plastic roofing visible above the saxophonist's balcony was not in use in the 1940s.

Quotes
Wes Pennington: [singing while urinating into a river] Pour the devil's poison into God's cleansing river/It's of no further use to man when it's filtered through the liver!

Connections
Featured in Century of Cinema: Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995)

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Featured review

10/10

One of NZ film's classics...

Okay, it's not as successful as Hercules or Xena, Warrior Queen... But the NZ film industry can be justifiably proud of this production - it's a great laugh with the performance of the late Billy T James as the Kid stealing the show. Taniwha, dodgy bets, the bookie at the pub, listening to the TAB results on the National Programme - it couldn't have been made anywhere but NZ.