Often inviting huge crowds of friends back to his home for wild parties. Jake is let go from his job but is satisfied with the unemployment benefit, spending most of his time and money getting drunk at the local pub with his friends. After a long eighteen years of living in an unkempt council house with their five children, their interpretations of life and being Maori are consistently tested. When the novel was first published it spent more than a year at number one on the New Zealand best sellers list.īeth Heke (Rena Owen) has just left her small town and despite the disapproval of her family married Jake Heke (Temuera Morrison). With many critics strongly disapproving of the film on political, social and aesthetic grounds but on the other hand the film still remains the country’s most successful film to date in the history of New Zealand cinema, bringing in, in excess of 6 million NZ dollars through the national box office. With many Maori commentators condemning it for both its negative and allegedly racist portrayal of the Maori people. This story of a poor urban Maori family has aroused much controversy in New Zealand society, and in particular throughout the Maori community. Once Were Warriors is said not only to be a film or a novel but a powerful cultural representation that has had a significant impact on New Zealand society. The movie stars Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison and was directed by New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori. Once Were Warriors the 1994 film based on the 1990 bestselling novel by Alan Duff tells the story of the Hekes family an urban Maori family and there problems with alcoholism, poverty and domestic violence.
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