Predicament

Predicament is a 2010 comedy horror film based on the 1975 novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson and starring Jemaine Clement of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords plus Tim Finn of the Finn Brothers. Filmed in Hawera and Eltham in Taranaki, it was the last Morrieson novel to be adapted for cinema his other three novels were filmed in the 1980s.

But while Morriesons first two novels were published in Australia, Predicament was declined by Angus amp Robertson. It went through numerous drafts, many abandoned, before like Pallet on the Floor being published posthumously by Dunmore Press of Palmerston North in 1975.The opening scene is of a hunched figure digging in the darkness, and demonstrates Simon Rabys superb cinematography as does the next daytime shot of a high rickety wooden tower built by Cedrics mentally unbalanced father Martin. But when the characters start talking, what ought to be a darkly hilarious crime comedy dissolves into mush, according to reviewer David Larsen. The screenplay was written by the director Jason Stutter, who chopped up and rearranged Morriesons dialogue. ........

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