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Someone Else's Country
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 150
Released: 1996-04-18
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Homepage: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996
Studios: Vanguard Films,
Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is counterpointed by the social effects (redundant workers, Post Office closures). Made by Alister Barry in 1996 when the effects were raw, the film draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key “witnesses to history”.