Once Were Warriors (1994) starring Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell. Lower-class, urbanized Maori family in New Zealand struggles with poverty, crime, abuse. The wife (Owen) finally decides that she's not going to take it anymore, but it's too late for her daughter Grace (Kerr-Bell), who has been raped by one of her father's friends and hangs herself. There can be no happy ending, of course, but there is a kind of rough justice. This is a movie that really packs a punch. It has good subtitles, too. Grade: A-
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