Take Home Pay

Take Home Pay marks the third self-funded feature for writer/director SQS. Three Wise Cousins and Hibiscus and Ruthless both proved popular with audiences and critics. This 'action comedy' focusses on Samoan brothers Popo (Ronnie Taulafo) and Alama (Vito Vito) who ditch the taro fields of home for the promise of big money, picking kiwifruit in Aotearoa. When Popo steals their wages and goes AWOL, Alama calls on his relative, unorthodox private investigator Bob Titilo (ex Laughing Samoan Tofiga Fepulea'i) to help track his brother down. Magnum P.I. he ain't.

Look at the wingspan of those toes — you can definitely tell those are Samoan footprints.

– Private investigator Bob Titilo (Tofiga Fepulea'i) chases leads, in his hunt for Popo

Key Cast & Crew

Tofiga Fepulea’i

As: Bob Titilo

Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa (SQS)

Director, Writer

Lydia Peckham

Actor

James Maeva

Actor

Cindy of Samoa

Actor

Tim Waikiki Mitipelo

Actor