Alienation and rock 'n' roll unite a poor boy and rich girl who meet on the streets of downtown Auckland, NZ.
Teenaged Ska (Matthew Hunter) is going nowhere fast. He's dropped out of school, has a dead-end job as a garbage man and does a sideline in petty theft with his best friend, Andrew (Mark Pilisi). He lives in a shabby house in run-down neighborhood with his older sister, Fran (Rebecca Saunders) and two younger siblings; their mother is dead and their father is a hopeless drunk. Fran has started working for local tough-guy Jay Ryder (Peter Bland) — she says she's got a job at a sauna parlor, but Ska suspects, correctly, that she's hooking. And on top o...
Released:
1986
Rated:
n/a
Length:
100 mins