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Director
  
Gaylene Preston

Music director
  
Jonathan Crayford

Country
  
New Zealand

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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Ruby and Rata movie poster

Release date
  
4 October 1990 (1990-10-04) (New Zealand)

Writer
  
Gaylene Preston (screenplay), Graeme Tetley

Cast
  
Yvonne Lawley, Vanessa Rare, Simon Barnett

Screenplay
  
Gaylene Preston, Graeme Tetley

Similar movies
  
Broken English (1996), Whale Rider (2002), Until They Sail (1957), Smash Palace (1982), Once Were Warriors (1994)

Ruby and Rata is a 1990 New Zealand comedy-drama film, directed and produced by Gaylene Preston.

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Plot summary

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Ruby (Yvonne Lawley) is an 83-year-old woman who has just failed her driving test and is worried about her ability to cope with day-to-day life at her age. She asks her nephew Buckle (Simon Barnett), posing as a real estate agent, to arrange to lease part of the house she owns to a potential housemate to assist her with various chores. The new tenant is Rata (Vanessa Rare)—a well-dressed, smooth-talking young woman of Māori descent who works for a large finance company. Once she has moved in, it becomes apparent that Rata is actually a cleaner at the firm, has a young son named Willie (Lee Metekingi), and is in trouble with social services over welfare payments. Rata is also hoping to make it big as a singer in a punk band, The Apocalypse, which is reliant on her accessing the supposed "fortune" of her new housemate/landlady to pay for sound equipment. An unusual relationship develops between Ruby, Rata and Willie, with each of them manipulating the others in some way, but forming a bond and dependence on each other.

Cast

  • Yvonne Lawley – Ruby
  • Vanessa Rare – Rata
  • Lee Metekingi – Willie
  • Simon Barnett – Buckle

    • Production

    Ruby and Rata was filmed in and around the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert.

    It was the second film made by Preston-Laing Productions (Gaylene Preston and Robin Laing), the first being the 1986 horror film Mr. Wrong.

    Awards

    Ruby and Rata won four awards at the 1990 NZ Film Awards: Best Editing, Best Soundtrack, Best Film Score and Best Performance (Male).

    References

    Ruby and Rata Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Ruby and Rata IMDb Ruby and Rata themoviedb.org


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