The Shirt

2000 New Zealand film

  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
85 minutesCountryNew ZealandLanguageEnglish

The Shirt is a 2000 New Zealand film directed by John Laing.[1]

Synopsis

Two Wellington junkies Marty and Gina are living a dysfunctional family life. The police suspect that Marty knows about a murder in Mt Victoria.[1][2]

Cast

  • Timothy Bartlett as Errol
  • Ross Bevan as Jack Webber
  • Stephen Gledhill as John Button
  • Kirsty King-Turner as Gina
  • Joanne Mildenhall as Aroha O'Neill
  • Steve Morris as Chester
  • Marshall Napier as Mike Hughes
  • Brian Sergent as Marty
  • P.J. Sisson as Bernie Brodie
  • Jeff Szusterman as Nick
  • Jeffrey Thomas as Carl Berry
  • Irene Wood as Joyce

Production

There was an earlier short 12 minute version made in 1998.[3]

Reviews

Censored in New Zealand as "R18; Restricted for persons 18 years and over".[2] The shirt was screened at the Twenty-Ninth Wellington Film Festival in 2000.[1] The earlier 1998 short version was screened at the festival in 1999.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "The Shirt". Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. 2000. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b "The shirt". National Library of New Zealand. 2000. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  3. ^ "The Shirt [12 minute version]". Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. 1998. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
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Films directed by John Laing
Features
  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
  • The Lost Tribe (1983)
  • Other Halves (1984)
  • Dangerous Orphans (1986)
  • Absent Without Leave (1992)
  • The Shirt (2000)
  • No One Can Hear You (2001)
  • A War Story (2018)
Television
Producer only
  • Mercy Peak (2001–04)
  • Outrageous Fortune (2006–10)
  • Westside (2015)