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West of Eden (2017)

Mar 09, 2017 Drama, Romance 1h 58m
User Score
48%
15 votes
Internet Movie Database
47%

A few want power to control. Two need freedom to love.

Overview

New Zealand independent drama following a young Māori man who moves to the country to rebuild his life after facing prejudices around his sexual orientation. He takes on a job on a farm where he grows attached to the farmer’s son. But when their relationship grows, the situation steers into darker territories…

Alastair Riddell
Director
Vanessa Riddell
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Kieran Foster
Kieran Foster

Billy Williams
Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson

Tom Henshaw
Vanessa Riddell
Vanessa Riddell

Eva Henshaw
Peter Ford
Peter Ford

Frank Henshaw
Jordan Blaikie
Jordan Blaikie

Pete
Renee Sheridan
Renee Sheridan

Diane (voice)

Full Cast & Crew

Media

WEST of EDEN trailer - In Cinemas Feb 2017
WEST of EDEN trailer - In Cinemas Feb 2017
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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on March 28, 2022

This is quite a good looking, though shockingly slow tale of a young gay man who leaves his family to work on a remote farm to escape the bigotry (and brutality) of his former workplace. Snag is, when he arrives he meets and falls head over heels for the young son of the owner of his new farm in rural New Zealand. To be fair to both Kieran Foster in the lead as "Billy" and his very pretty love interest "Tom" (Luke Thompson) they both perform well enough, its just the pace and the direction that meander uphill in a thunderstorm. It does attempt to appraise the prejudices and hatred that existed at the time, but there are too many distracting sub-plots that - given this is based on a true story - though probably factual in nature, add little to what is essentially a love story that does not ...

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