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Summary: Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: New Zealand
Language: English
Domestic: $ 256,211
International: $ 43,294,943
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