Underplayed Gems

Sons and Heirs (2022)

Sons and Heirs poster
Directed by
Arana Edmonds
Genre
comedy film, crime film
Country
New Zealand
Runtime
39 min
Rated
M
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A comedy crime film set in New Zealand. It follows a group of people involved in a small time scheme or misunderstanding.

lightheartedquirkyoffbeatcomedicplayfullow-stakes

What happens

Kuranui College is a state co-educational secondary day school for the South Wairarapa located in Greytown, New Zealand. The college opened in February 1960 to replace the four district high schools in Greytown, Featherston, Martinborough, and Carterton. The college was built in Greytown, for it was the midpoint of the towns. In the midst of the post-World War II baby boom. It has been said to have as many as 900 students in the mid-1970s, but since the end of the baby boom, that number has dropped. Then Education Minister Lockwood Smith disbanded the college's Board of Trustees due to it being dysfunctional. Brian Lochore was appointed commissioner after sacking of the board of trustees in 1994. Board in-fighting had reached the stage where the students rebelled, staging a lunchtime student strike. In 2005, Trevor Mallard visited Kuranui College due to the Wairarapa schools project, WELCom. He first announced the project at Kuranui College. The project aims to establish a 'virtual' secondary school community for the Tararua and Wairarapa region using broadband. Kuranui is one of 15 rural secondary schools in New Zealand with agricultural subjects in their curriculum. Kuranui is a busload college with over eighty per cent of the students who go to college travel to and from school daily by bus. The college serves Years 9 to 13; the college has a roll of 788 students as of March 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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