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A real-life car-wrecker's yard in the shadow of Mt Ruapehu provided the title and the setting for Roger Donaldson's thriller Smash Palace. Powered by a pitch-perfect script and electrifying performances, it traces the psychological descent of a rugged ex-racing driver (...
Smash Palace - which was finished fast - Aberdein remembers seeing a rough cut within days of the movie wrapping - was already New Zealand film's first international smash.
Smash Palace. Retired racing driver Al moves his French wife and daughter to rural New Zealand to manage his father's car wrecking yard. When his wife announces she's ending their marriage, Al...
A revealing and involving Australian portrait of splitting up. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Al Shaw (Bruno Lawrence), a former Grand Prix racer, married Jacqui (Anna Jemison), a schoolteacher, in Europe and returned to a small New Zealand town to run his father's car wrecking yard.
May 27, 2018 · Emotional drama, haunting and uncomfortable relatability and complex characterisation are all reasons behind why audiences continue to buy into ever-changing versions of these tales, one such version being 1981’s New Zealand New Wave classic Smash Palace.
Smash Palace ★★ ½ 1982 A compelling drama of a marriage jeopardized by his obsession with building a race car and her need for love and affection. Melodramatic, but worth watching.
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