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Sione's Wedding

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2006

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Man, we're gonna be banned from our own funerals.
– Albert (Oscar Kightley)

If any of you dickheads wreck our wedding, that's it — we're done.
– Sione (Pua Magasiva)

I was surprised by the degree to which the film just fell into people's hearts. Even years later, I'm meeting people who say they go home every night and watch it after work to cheer themselves up.
– Oscar Kightley, in a 13 January 2011 interview with Auckland Now

What time do you call this, Sefa?
– Leilani (Teuila Blakely) greets her boyfriend Sefa (Shimpal Lelisi) after a big night on the town

...the whole enterprise is so infectiously energetic, so drenched in joy and so bloody funny that to give it less than a top rating would be churlish. It is, whatever its shortcomings, impossible to imagine it being done better.
– NZ Herald reviewer Peter Calder in a five star review, 24 March 2006

We wanted to create a visual portrait of Auckland as an incredibly varied city: metropolitan, multicultural and international ... the film is about creating a window into the Samoan culture within Auckland city, which, population wise, is the Polynesian capital.
– Director Chris Graham, in the press kit for Sione's Wedding

Samoan Wedding is a rowdy, bawdy New Zealand comedy that perceptively depicts the universal with the particular in an amusing, affectionate way ... content to celebrate the underlying bonds of loyalty and respect that tie these Samoans together ... consistently imaginative, revealing and funny.
– Kevin Thomas, in a Los Angeles Times review under the film's American title Samoan Wedding, 9 February 2007