6-515: [REDACTED] Look up predicament in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Predicament may refer to: Predicament (2010 film) , a comedy horror film Predicament (2008 film) , an Iranian crime-drama film Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Predicament . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-637: The 1975 novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson and starring Jemaine Clement of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords plus Tim Finn of the Finn Brothers. Filmed in Hāwera and Eltham in Taranaki , it was the last Morrieson novel to be adapted for cinema; his other three novels were filmed in the 1980s. Based on the novel of the same name, Predicament is a coming-of-age story and a crime comedy. It's an account of
18-400: The characters start talking, what ought to be a darkly hilarious crime comedy dissolves into mush, according to reviewer David Larsen. The screenplay was written by the director Jason Stutter , who "chopped up and rearranged" Morrieson's dialogue. This article related to a New Zealand film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a comedy horror film
24-433: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Predicament&oldid=1125376376 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Predicament (2010 film) Predicament is a 2010 comedy horror film based on
30-523: The powerful and disturbing psychological fantasy world of adolescence within the familiar small-town setting of novelist Morrieson's writing. Naïve teenager Cedric Williamson is involved with two older criminally inclined misfits in photographing and blackmailing amorous couples, and ends up an accomplice to murder. It is set in a 1930s Taranaki town similar to Morrieson's Hāwera . But while Morrieson's first two novels were published in Australia, Predicament
36-501: Was rejected by Angus & Robertson . It went through numerous drafts, many abandoned, before (like Pallet on the Floor ) being published posthumously by Dunmore Press of Palmerston North in 1975. The opening scene is of a hunched figure digging in the darkness, and demonstrates Simon Raby's superb cinematography; as does the next (daytime) shot of a high rickety wooden tower built by Cedric's mentally unbalanced father Martin. But when
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