Arriving Tuesday

Will you share bank accounts and changing of nappies should the need arise, not worry too much about pot bellies and menopause and who buys the old Grecian 2000 when the old hair starts turning grey?

– Riki (Rawiri Paratene) officiates at an impromptu wedding

It is a very delicately balanced film. Warmth and wit are cut through by some quite savage moments and the love story is so skilfully interwoven with the wider issues that it is all of a piece...

– Helen Martin in a Listener review, 8 November 1986

Everyone else does when they get back from overseas.

– Nick (Peter Hayden) on why Monica (Judy McIntosh) should marry him

I think everyone who worked on this film will be very pleased they did — for many of them it's their first feature film.

– Producer Don Reynolds interviewed for OnFilm magazine, December 1985, Vol.31

...the love and hikoi storylines are skillfully interwoven . . the lcactions, many making their first appearance in a feature film, are beautifully shot.

– Helen Martin, in 1997 book New Zealand Film 1912 – 1996, page 124

You know something Nick — you can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.

– Monica (Judy McIntosh) to Nick (Peter Hayden)