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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 1999
This film charts the redemption of Jake the Muss. It picks up the story after he turns his back on his family, and is up to his tricks at McClutchy's Bar. After one of Jake's sons dies suspiciously in a gang fight, another, Sonny (Clint Eruera) seeks revenge, accompanied by a fellow gang member (Nancy Brunning). Scripted by Once Were Warriors author Alan Duff and directed by Ian Mune, Broken Hearted became the second-highest-earning Kiwi film of the 1990s (eclipsed only by Warriors). It scooped most of its categories at the 1999 NZ Film & TV Awards — though not for Rawiri Paratene's acclaimed role as a gang veteran.
Warning: content may offend
You know the rules. You gotta earn your keep sister.– Gang leader Apeman (Pete Smith) to recent arrival Tania (Nancy Brunning)
Key Cast & Crew
See all 60 credits
Produced by
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Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Acknowledgements
Made in association with the NZ Film Commission, Bruce Plested and NZ On Air
Music
Includes songs performed by Che Fu, Prince Tui Teka, Dam Native, DLT, Max Merritt & the Meteors, Supergroove, plus Desmond Dekker, Renee Geyer, Scotty, and Toots & the Maytals
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