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Once Were Warriors - New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori (The Edge) directed this brutal but powerful story drawn from the culture of poverty and alienation enveloping contemporary Maori life. Rena Owen plays the beleaguered mother of two boys--one of whom is already in prison while the other contemplates membership in a gang--and a daughter whose potential is being smothered at home. Temuera Morrison gives an outstanding and sometimes shocking performance as the violent head of the household, more adept at keeping up his social stature within his community of friends than holding down a job. Once Were Warriors pulls no punches, literally and figuratively, but despite the rough going, Tamahori gives us a rare and important insight into a people digging down deep to find their pride. What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted? - This much-anticipated sequel to 'Once Were Warriors', New Zealand's most successful film to date, is similarly based around the country's gang culture. Jake the Muss has turned his back on his family, and is now living his life drinking and getting up to his old tricks in McClutchy's bar. But when he discovers that his eldest son has been killed in a gang fight, he vows to get his act together and struggles to save his other son from suffering a similar fate.