Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of this searing look at family life are strong performances from the only actors on the set with real film experience, Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison. Morrison plays a seductive and dangerously violent Jake Heke whose outbursts threaten to tear his family apart forever. Owen plays the resilient and fiery Beth Heke whose defiance and intelligence infuriate the brutish Jake. When a savage beating prevents her from appearing in court on behalf of her delinquent young son, Beth begins to realize how little Jake cares for his family. With the help of her daughter Grace, an aspiring young writer...
Cornell's best chance is to keep the games close and hope its goaltending will carry it through. The Big Red's big guns are Mike Sancimino (8 goals-17 assists-25 points), coming off a three goal-three assist weekend, and Jake Karam...
...Park at the nation's box office? Partly because director Lee Tamahori's film shows why people who hurt each other still stay together-for love, oh, toxic love. But Warriors, written by Riwia Brown from a controversial novel by Alan Duff, also has the lure of ethnographic exoticism: Jake and Beth, their kids and friends are Maori, members of New Zealand's indigenous people...
...search for manhood leads them to modern variations on tribal traditions. The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain. It's also a study of class animosities within a race. Beth was a princess of the Tainui tribe, and the elders disapproved of her marriage to Jake, who comes from "a long line of slaves...
Morrison has a hulking charm that makes one root against hope for Jake's regeneration. That, of course, would be to deny the movie's trajectory toward emotional wipeout. By the end, Once Were Warriors has left an ache in your heart, a hole in your...