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Synopsis

PASSPORT FILM 10 of 10 - From New Zealand comes a wickedly offbeat love story—a funny, fractured romance between two total misfits, woven into an all-consuming quest for revenge, and shot through with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human condition. It all begins with Lily (Loren Horsley), a lonely oddball and fast-food waitress who happens to be a hopeless romantic. Then there's Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), the man of Lily's dreams, another lonely oddball and video game clerk, who has spent the last decade plotting ultimate vengeance on a bully from his high school past. When these two connect at a "dress as your favorite animal" party, Lily decides to risk everything for love.

Film Information

• Genre: Comedy | Foreign
• Director: Taika Cohen
• Written By: Taika Cohen
• Starring: Jemaine Clement and Taika Cohen
• Running Time: 88 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R
• Language: English
• Official Site

Reviews

"What rescues Eagle vs. Shark is its focus on Lily. Although Horsley overdoes the winsomeness, she is genuinely appealing. Love erases Lily's geekiness and in its place stands an attractive young woman."

   - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

"Unlike so many big-studio films that pass off models in horn-rimmed glasses as nerds, this little New Zealand gem embraces the inner geek and, just as effectively, celebrates misfit love."

   - Scott Bowles, USA Today

"With an often very funny story line that eventually touches on parental disappointment and suicide, it's clear that, his debt to Hess and Wes Anderson notwithstanding, Waititi has learned a thing or two from fellow antipodean Jane Campion as well."

   - Ken Fox, TV Guide

"The film is punctuated by a literal knock down, drag out affair that has all the perverse curiosity of watching a"

   - Stephen Saito, Premiere

"Never before have I been so emotionally involved with an apple core, or seen salvation in a flip-flop. Taika Waititi, you had me at nunchuks."

   - Kyle Smith, New York Post

Showtimes

• Wednesday, August 15th
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, August 16th
  7:00 pm
• Friday, August 17th
  9:45 pm
• Saturday, August 18th
  9:45 pm
• Sunday, August 19th
  7:00 pm
• Monday, August 20th
  9:30 pm
• Tuesday, August 21st
  7:00 pm