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No. 2 is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 16 february 2006 with Ruby Dee
No. 2 (2006)
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Add to a movie listNo. 2, released as Naming Number Two in North America, is a 2006 New Zealand film written and directed by Toa Fraser in his feature film debut. It was released 16 February 2006 in New Zealand and 3 August 2007 in the U.S. It was adapted from British-Fijian playwright Fraser's 2000 play.
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Nanna Maria, the matriarch of a Fijian extended family living in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, feels that the heart and passion has gone out of her clan. One morning, she demands that her grown grandchildren put on a big family feast at which she will name her successor. The grandchildren—Soul, Charlene, Hibiscus, Erasmus, and her favorite, Tyson—reluctantly turn up, Tyson with his new Danish girlfriend, Maria. Family conflicts play out as the difficult day progresses, but in the end the grandchildren—and eventually Nanna's children too—join with cousins and others in a traditional celebration.Actors
Ruby Dee
(Nanna Maria)
Rene Naufahu
(Erasmus)
Tuva Novotny
(Danish Maria)
Antony Starr
(Shelly)
Nathaniel Lees
(Uncle John)
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