User reviews

What starts out as the typical buddies idle talk while fishing in a lake turns tense when one mentions slapping his wife a bit and the other asks `Why do you never slap me a bit'

This short film doesn't explore any new territory in the struggle about coming out but does present it in a way that some folks who don't normally think about such things may.

Not a great short but certainly worth the 12 minutes if you happen to see it.

Having thought it was gone forever, I just found this in my short film archive on VHS, and what a delight! It was always one of my favourite shorts, a tightly executed idea bursting with between-the-lines hilarity and tension that is something of a masterclass in timing. After a relatively long introduction to the vast, enchanting New Zealand landscape, as two 'proper blokes' take their small fishing dinghy out into the lake at sunset, claustrophobia soon sets in when one of them rocks the boat (boom boom) by raising the topic of bisexuality. Endlessly quotable and not a minute wasted. This film deserved much more recognition and surely would have enjoyed the praise it deserves had it travelled the international festival circuit as much as it should have. Not only may favourite short film from New Zealand but one of my favourite shorts of all time. Now I just have to try and get it on DVD!