| Goodbye Pork Pie | |
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| Directed by | Geoff Murphy |
| Written by | Geoff Murphy Ian Mune |
| Produced by | Geoff Murphy Nigel Hutchinson |
| Starring | Tony Barry Kelly Johnson Claire Oberman Bruno Lawrence |
| Cinematography | Alun Bollinger |
| Edited by | Michael J. Horton |
| Music by | John Charles |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Language | English |
| Budget | NZ$350,000[1] |
| Box office | NZ$1.4 million[2] |
Goodbye Pork Pie is a 1981 New Zealand comedy film directed by Geoff Murphy, co-produced by Murphy and Nigel Hutchinson,[3] and written by Geoff Murphy and Ian Mune. The film was New Zealand's first large-scale local hit. One book described it as Easy Rider meets the Keystone Cops.[4]
It was filmed during November 1979, using only 24 cast and crew. Its overheads were surprisingly minimal, to the point that the police cars used doubled as crew and towing vehicles, and that the director Geoff Murphy performed some of the stunts himself.
- ^ Elliott, Matt (1997). Kiwi Jokers: The Rise and Rise of New Zealand Comedy. Auckland, New Zealand: HarperCollinsPublishers. pp. 160–162. ISBN 978-1-86950-248-5.
- ^ Mike Nicolaidi, "New Zealand", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p8
- ^ Croot, James (27 March 2017). "Goodbye Pork Pie producer Nigel Hutchinson dies, aged 75". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ NA Film Archive — Goodbye Pork Pie Archived 3 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine