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Director
  
Jason Stutter

Screenplay
  
Jason Stutter

Country
  
New Zealand

5.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Crime

Story by
  
Ronald Hugh Morrieson

Language
  
English

Predicament movie poster

Release date
  
26 August 2010 (2010-08-26)

Based on
  
Predicament  by Ronald Hugh Morrieson

Writer
  
Ronald Hugh Morrieson (novel), Jason Stutter (screenplay)

Music director
  
David Donaldson, Steve Roche, Janet Roddick, Plan 9

Cast
  
Jemaine Clement
(Spook),
Heath Franklin
(Mervyn Toebeck),
Hayden Frost
(Cedric Williamson),
Tim Finn
(Martin Williamson),
Rose McIver
(Maybelle)

Similar movies
  
Related Jason Stutter movies

Tagline
  
Three Misfits And A Murder

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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.

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Plot

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Predicament is a powerful and disturbing account of the psychological fantasy world of adolescence with the familiar small-town setting of Morrieson's writing, so is a coming-of-age novel and a crime comedy. Naïve teenager Cedric Williamson is involved with two older criminally inclined misfits in photographing and blackmailing amorous couples, and ends up an accomplice to murder. It is set in a 1930s Taranaki town similar to Morrieson's Hawera.

But while Morrieson’s first two novels were published in Australia, Predicament was rejected by Angus & 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.

Film

The opening scene is of a hunched figure digging in the darkness, and demonstrates Simon Raby’s superb cinematography; as does the next (daytime) shot of a high rickety wooden tower built by Cedric’s 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 Morrieson’s dialogue.

Cast

  • Jemaine Clement as Spook, misfit
  • Hayden Frost as Cedric Williamson, teenager
  • Tim Finn as his father, Martin Williamson
  • Heath Franklin as Mervyn Toebeck, misfit
  • Rose McIver as Maybelle
  • Edward Newborn as Detective Huggins
  • David Van Horn as Officer Dawson
  • Chad Mills as Blair Bramwell
  • Brooke Williams as Margot Bramwell
  • Peter Mochrie as Vernon Bramwell
  • Carmel McGlone as Rita Zombrini
  • Hadleigh Walker as Ernie Fox
  • References

    Predicament Wikipedia
    Predicament IMDb Predicament themoviedb.org