In My Father's Den

Beautifully filmed and totally absorbing mystery about family secrets.

– Ray Bennett, in a Hollywood Reporter review, 5 July 2005

Brad McGann’s brilliant, involving and ultimately devastating version of In My Father’s Den is that rare type of adaptation: one that doesn’t just successfully translate a great book (although that’s rare enough), but just as successfully updates it and refreshes it, finding new ways into its difficult emotions, amplifying and renewing its themes. [...] His film is one seriously impressive achievement.

– Philip Matthews, in a Listener review, 9 October 2004

...I had a dream that prompted me to think about it in another way, something that could be set in a different location and based in contemporary times. It meant making some integral changes and taking a different approach.

– Writer/director Brad McGann on changing the time and setting from Maurice Gee's novel, Onfilm, 2004

I see the film as . . . a sort of artistic meeting-point between two people from different generations of New Zealand, striving to speak of similar things.

– Writer/director Brad McGann on adapting Maurice Gee's 1972 novel