Overview
The God Boy is a portrait of a troubled teen Jimmy (Jamie Higgins) growing up in post-war small town New Zealand and wrestling with a repressive education and home front turmoil. Adapted from the Ian Cross novel by Ian Mune and directed by Murray Reece, the landmark film was the first NZ telefeature, gaining Feltex awards and front page reviews. With menace and Catholic guilt ever-present, it’s credited as a pioneer of what Sam Neill dubbed NZ’s “cinema of unease”. (NZ On Screen)
Cast
- Ivan Beavis as Bloody Jack
- Maria Craig as Mrs Sullivan
- Judie Douglass as Sister Angela
- Jamie Higgins as Jimmy Sullivan
- Bernard Kearns as Father Gilligan
- Harold Kissin as Mr Walters