What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (film)

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Film poster
Directed byIan Mune
Written byAlan Duff
Produced byBill Gavin
StarringTemuera Morrison
Clint Eruera
Nancy Brunning
Julian Arahanga
Rena Owen
CinematographyAllen Guilford
Edited byMichael J. Horton
Music byDavid Hirschfelder
Production
companies
Distributed byPolyGram Filmed Entertainment[1]
Release date
  • 27 May 1999 (1999-05-27)[2]
Running time
98 minutes (PAL Format)
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is a 1999 New Zealand drama film directed by Ian Mune and starring Temuera Morrison as an abusive Māori husband, Jake "the Muss" Heke. The film is based on Alan Duff's novel[3] What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), the sequel to Once Were Warriors (1990), which was made into the film Once Were Warriors (1994).

  1. ^ a b Stratton, David (31 May 1999). "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?". Variety. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  2. ^ "OnFilm Magazine". June 1999. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help) Retrieved 17 October 2019
  3. ^ Duncan Petrie (2007). Shot in New Zealand. Random House. pp. 205–206. ISBN 978-1-86941-791-8.