
Nature just got gangster.
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
- 7.7
- 2016
- Released
- 1h 41m

Sam Neill
Hec
Julian Dennison
Ricky
Rima Te Wiata
Bella
Rachel House
Paula
Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne
Kahu
Oscar Kightley
Andy
Stan Walker
Ron
Mike Minogue
Joe
Cohen Holloway
Hugh
Rhys Darby
Psycho Sam
Troy Kingi
TK
Hamish Parkinson
Gavin
Stu Giles
Sick Man
Lloyd Scott
Tourist
Selina Woulfe
Organ Player
Mabelle Dennison
Church Lady
Sonia Spyve
Court Lawyer
Timothy Herbert
Court Lawyer
John Campbell
John Campbell
Mihingarangi Forbes
Mihingarangi Forbes
Nadine Higgins
Nadine Higgins
Sam Wallace
Sam Wallace











Released
en
$2,500,000.00
$23,900,000.00
- #countryside
- #based on novel or book
- #wild boar
- #delinquent
- #new zealand
- #wilderness
- #coming of age
- #dog
- #foster family
- #nature
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