By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * * )
Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) and Rob (Karl Urban) live together in poverty and bliss on Rob's farm with Nigel the dog, who suffers from severe agoraphobia and is therefore a moving, barking box.
If this was an Irish movie we'd have leprechauns but it's a
Kiwi romantic comedy and so there are "the Jacksons", quirky souls who no one is really sure about. Some people think they're tiny, others think they may be giants.
Auntie (Rangi Motu), one of the Jacksons, and her eight grown nephews, who are all about the same size and age, keep getting the upper hand in a series of encounters with our young lovers, straining Rob and Lucinda's relationship.
Whimsical, romantic, dramatic, funny and proudly, unashamedly Kiwi.
Running time: 87 mins
Rental: Now
