Wide-eyed, rebellious ’gangsta’ Ricky is bounced to yet another foster home on the edge of the New Zealand wilderness. For the welfare worker he’s a ‘real bad egg’, but kindly foster aunt Bella wins him over, helped by the gift of a dog he calls Tupac. Then circumstances change and Ricky finds himself on the run with grumpy foster uncle, Hec (Sam Neill) who is accused of his kidnapping. The misfit pair must learn to get along as the police get closer in this fresh adventure story from Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor Ragnarok), filled with heart, humour, and ‘trees, birds, rivers, sky’.

This film has an introduction from Mary Lowry, JCT Support Service.

Junior Cycle prescribed text for 2024, 2025 and 2026.