Came a Hot Friday

Came a Hot Friday is a 1985 New Zealand made comedy film, based on the 1964 novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Directed and cowritten by Ian Mune, it became one of the most successful local films released in New Zealand in the 1980s. The films cast included famed New Zealand comedian Billy T James.

Morriesons novels featured some sexuality and violence, but the film downplayed these aspects of the source novel and concentrated more on the comical elements. Some argued that the film followed the spirit of the Ealing comedies. One writer argued that the book makes goodnatured, nostalgic fun of small town 1940s New Zealand where Friday nights excitement is a pie and chips at the boozer with larger than life parodic characters.

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