Connection
Came a Hot Friday is a film of genre Drama directed by Ian Mune released in USA on 6 october 1985 with Billy T James
Came a Hot Friday (1985)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listCame a Hot Friday is a 1985 New Zealand made comedy film, based on the 1964 novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Directed and co-written by Ian Mune, it became one of the most successful local films released in New Zealand in the 1980s. The film's cast included famed New Zealand comedian Billy T James.
Synopsis
In rural New Zealand in 1949, Wes Pennington (Peter Bland) and his partner Cyril (Philip Gordon) are out to run a horse-racing scam for as long as they can. They are inveterate gamblers who have joined forces to trick local bookies, by taking advantage of delayed broadcasts of horse races. After arriving in small town Tainuia Junction, Wes and Cyril get involved in a bootlegging ring, arson and murder. Among a group of local eccentrics, they also meet the Tainuia Kid (Billy T. James), a Maori who believes himself to be a Mexican bandito. He becomes a kind of protector for the duo.Actors
Billy T James
(The Tainuia Kid)
Marshall Napier
(Sel Bishop)
Don Selwyn
(Norm Cray)
Bruce Allpress
Roy Billing
Prince Tui Teka
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Came a Hot Friday
There are 17 films with the same actors, 4 films with the same director, 87193 with the same cinematographic genres (including 11864 with exactly the same 2 genres than Came a Hot Friday), 6889 films with the same themes (including 3827 films with the same 2 themes than Came a Hot Friday), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Came a Hot Friday, you will probably like those similar films :
, 1h38Directed by Ian Mune
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about domestic violence, Gangster films
Actors Temuera Morrison, Nancy Brunning, Julian Arahanga, Rena Owen, Tammy Davis, Lawrence Makoare
Rating63%
Jake "the Muss" Heke is now fighting to save his son Sonny from a gang lifestyle after his eldest son, Nig, is killed in a gangland shootout. Jake goes through a period of hopelessness as he tries to restore his family to a functioning state after his anger, drinking, and violence (depicted in the first film) tore them apart. He still has trouble accepting the old traditional ways of the Māori people, but he begins to realise the importance of family and regrets what his former actions have done to them. Towards the end of the film, Jake does his best to reconcile with his family, even going so far as to save his son's life despite great personal risk to himself. This action, along with several others, serve to highlight Jake's changing characteristics.
, 1h11Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Clarke, Rawiri Paratene, Peter Rowley, Billy T James, Marshall Napier
Rating69%
Wal Footrot (John Clarke) and Cooch Windgrass (Peter Hayden) are shearing sheep on Wal's farm. Cheeky Hobson (Fiona Samuel), Wal's girlfriend, is driving on the highway when she is driven off the road by the Murphy brothers, Spit (Brian Sergent) and Hunk (Marshall Napier), flying in a helicopter. The Murphys then terrorise Wal's property, leaving Dog (Peter Rowley) to drown in a sheep pit. As he is in the water, he has a flashback of when he was a little pup: how he was united with Wal for the first time, a gift from Aunt Dolly (Dorothy McKegg), and how he met Jess, who was nearly drowned by Spit and Hunk. Soon, Wal wakes Dog and Cooch and the dogs manage to foil the Murphys, who were in the process of capturing Cooch's deer.
Pallet on the Floor (1986)
, 1h28Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Comedy horror films
Actors Marshall Napier, Peter McCauley, John Bach, Bruce Spence, Bruno Lawrence, Terence Cooper
Rating52%
Life was hard enough for Sam Jamieson without Jack Voot’s lechery and Miriam Breen’s jealousy. Then life at Kurikino erupted into a sensation of murder and blackmail, turning his life into a nightmare from which the efforts of Tinny Entwistle, Gigglejuice Saunders and the Remittance Man could not save him. But Spud McGhee had an idea .... . Sam never gets round to working on his cottage, he goes to the Brian Boru the only hotel in Kurikino, run by Amos Blennerhasset. Wife Sue is pregnant. Sam works at 'the big slaughter-house across the bridge at the foot of the hill' known as 'the Works'.
Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)
, 1h45Directed by Geoff Murphy
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Tony Barry, Bruno Lawrence, Claire Oberman, Don Selwyn, Marshall Napier, John Bach
Rating67%
In the Northland town of Kaitaia in Spring 1978, nineteen-year-old Gerry Austin (Kelly Johnson) opportunistically steals a wallet accidentally dropped by a wealthy woman named Lesley Morris. Finding cash and her driver's licence inside it, he uses them to rent a yellow Mini from Hertz. With no particular aim in mind, he drifts down to Auckland. Meanwhile, in Auckland, the middle-aged John (Tony Barry), has just had Sue, his girlfriend of six years, walk out on him and fly home to Invercargill. After a night on the bottle, John decides to go down to Invercargill.
, 1h32Directed by Vincent Ward
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Time travel films
Actors Chris Haywood, Marshall Napier, Paul Livingston, Jay Laga'aia
Rating65%
During the Black Death of 14th century England, people in a remote Cumbrian mountain village listen with fear to tales of the gruesome plague that has engulfed the world. In an attempt to stave off the infection, they rely upon the visions of a boy, named Griffin, who has a reputation for having a kind of "second sight". With the backing of the village's most famous adventurer, a man named Connor, whom Griffin idolizes, a group of the townsfolk travel to a nearby cavern. Bringing good copper ore to be melted and cast into shape, they dig down into the earth, all the while racing against time and the coming of the next full moon, in an effort to place a holy cross on the steeple of "the biggest Church in all of Christendom" as an offering for God's protection.
Bad Eggs (2003)
, 1h38Directed by Tony Martin, Tony Martin
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Nicholas Bell
Rating61%
A Magistrate named Poulgrain takes his own life in an exhaust fume-filled car but in his death-throes, he releases the hand-brake whereupon his car rolls down the road all the way into the middle of a busy shopping centre where a pair of over-zealous detectives empty their firearms into his corpse. Disgraced, the two detectives, Ben Kinnear and his best mate Mike Paddock-both members of the much-hyped Zero Tolerance Unit (ZTU), are demoted back to uniform duties. Things get worse when they pay a visit to the Magistrate's widow Eleanor and accidentally burn her house down. Things become more complicated when Julie Bale, a journalist and a former police-officer and onetime partner of Kinnear's, is arrested on a charge of blackmailing the Magistrate. Kinnear starts to smell a rat when he discovers that a computer disc was found in the dead man's car but was tampered with by persons unknown. Kinnear's boss Gillespie questions the two detectives in charge of the Poulgrain case, Wicks & Pendlebury as to what happened to the original disc. Without warning, Wicks shoots dead Gillespie and Pendlebury and then deliberately wounds himself, re-arranging the crime scene to make it appear Pendlebury fired first.
A Matter of Honor (1966)
, 1h50Directed by Luigi Zampa
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier, Franco Fabrizi, Lucien Raimbourg, Tecla Scarano
Rating65%
Efisio is supposed to go Sardinia for killing a man whose remarks have besmirched the honour of another family. But before Efisio can comply, the targeted man gets murdered by another killer. Still Efisio is credited for the assassination. Later his wife turns out being pregrant and it is doubted whether it is Efisio's child because he has allegedly been in Sardinia at around the time when the child was probably fathered. Efisio's honour is questioned by a local mob and he takes drastic measures to restore his reputation.
The Sapphires (2012)
, 1h43Directed by Wayne Blair
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Théâtre, Transport films, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell, Tory Kittles
Rating69%
In 1968 Australia, Gail and Cynthia head into town for a talent contest and their young sister, Julie is forbidden to go because she has a child and is too young, until she bribes a fellow neighbour to take her into town. An alcoholic, Irish talent scout, Dave Lovelace, is scolded by his boss for being late despite him sleeping in his car that is near work. After the girls lose the talent contest, even with Julie coming in, Dave gives Gail her guitar back and as Dave is about to leave, Julie hands him a piece of paper, showing that the troops need singers for Vietnam. Soon, Dave goes to make a call and he says they have been accepted a spot to audition in Melbourne. Back at their place, Gail, Cynthia and Julie's mother tells him he can take them but Julie until Julie's father tells him not to worry about her. Advised by their grandmother, they meet up with their cousin Kay, who had been living in Melbourne for 10 years. She rejects the offer of joining them, but later changes her mind and meets up at their uncle's place. After days of training their moves, they are almost ready until Julie gives Cynthia a letter from her fiance that he is going to call it off. Despite that, they manage to audition very well and Kay comes up with the group's name, The Sapphires, after looking at Cynthia's engagement ring.
ABBA: The Movie (1977)
, 1h36Directed by Lasse Hallström
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Robert Hughes, Tom Oliver, Richard Norton
Rating64%
The film has a very thin plot which is no more than a vehicle to link together the concert footage. It concerns the adventures of Ashley Wallace (Robert Hughes), a naïve DJ on Radio 2TW, who normally presents a through-the-night country and western-themed show. In spite of this, he is sent by the station's boss (Bruce Barry) to get an in-depth interview ("Not an interview, a dialogue", demands his boss) with the group, which is to be aired on the day ABBA leave Australia. Needless to say, Ashley, who has never done an interview before, singularly fails, mainly because he has forgotten to pack his press card, although the fact that he is unable to buy a ticket doesn't help matters either. Armed with his trusty reel-to-reel tape recorder, Ashley is forced to follow the group all over Australia, beginning in Sydney, and then travelling, in order, to Perth, Adelaide, and Melbourne, experiencing repeated run-ins with the group's very protective bodyguard (Tom Oliver), as well as his increasingly exasperated boss. Throughout the movie, we see Ashley interviewing members of the public, asking them if and why they like ABBA. Almost all the comments are positive, but he interviews a man who is driven mad by his ABBA-obsessed twelve-year-old, and another girl who thinks ABBA are over-the-top.
Seven Sinners (1940)
, 1h27Directed by Tay Garnett, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert
Rating64%
The film spotlights the controversial life of torch singer Bijou Blanche (Dietrich), who has been kicked off one South Seas island after another. She is accompanied by naval deserter Edward Patrick 'Little Ned' Finnegan (Broderick Crawford) and magician/pickpocket Sasha Mencken (Mischa Auer). Eventually, she meets a handsome, young naval officer, Lt. Dan Brent (Wayne), and the two fall in love. When Brent vows to marry Bijou, his commander and others plead with him to leave her.