The Dark Horse (2014)

Directed by

James Napier Robertson

Genre

drama film

Country

New Zealand

Runtime

2h 04m

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 146 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man with a troubled past uses his chess skills to coach a troubled boy for a national tournament. It is set in a New Zealand community facing hardship.

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What happens

The Dark Horse is a 2014 New Zealand drama film written and directed by James Napier Robertson and starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston. It won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Score at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards, Best Film at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), 2015 San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) and 2015 Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), was New York Times Critics' Pick and Time Magazine Critics' Pick, and was labeled by leading New Zealand critics as "One of the greatest New Zealand films ever made". It premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and was created by production company Four Knights Film. The film was released theatrically in the U.S. by Broad Green Pictures on 1 April 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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