For Good (2003)

Director:

Stuart McKenzie

Writer:

Stuart McKenzie (writer)

Release Date:

20 July 2003 (New Zealand)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Michelle Langstone	...	Lisa
Timothy Balme	...	Grant Wilson
Miranda Harcourt	...	Mother
Tim Gordon	...	Father
Adam Gardiner	...	Flatmate
Hera Dunleavy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charlie Bleakley	...	Abbott
Anneke-Lee Gough

Directed by
Stuart McKenzie

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Stuart McKenzie		writer

Produced by
Miranda Harcourt	....	co-producer
Stuart McKenzie	....	co-producer
Neil Pardington	....	producer

Original Music by
Shayne Carter

Cinematography by
Duncan Cole

Film Editing by
Richard Hobbs
Paul Sutorius

Production Design by
Andrew Thomas

Costume Design by
Amanda Neale

Makeup Department
Catherine Maguire	....	makeup department head
Cath McGuire	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Anton Steel	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Wayde Beckman	....	on-set art director
Alice Tinning	....	property master

Sound Department
Michael Hedges	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gilbert Lake	....	assistant re-recording mixer
Matthew Lambourn	....	assistant sound editor
Robyn McFarlane	....	foley recordist
Polly McKinnon	....	sound effects editor
Carolyn McLaughlin	....	foley artist
Tim Prebble	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Nick Booth	....	scanning and recording supervisor: Weta Digital
Mark Smith	....	visual effects
Jonathan Woodford-Robinson	....	visual effects editor

Other crew
Veronique Lawrence	....	continuity

Production Companies

• MAP Productions

Distributors

• Arkles Entertainment (2004) (New Zealand) (theatrical)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

New Zealand

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

New Zealand:R16

Company:

MAP Productions

Trivia:

McKenzie's script draws on material he and Miranda Harcourt developed for her theatre piece, "Portraits", which itself drew on their own interviews with rapists, murderers and victims' families.

an excruciating bore......

Cheap-jack psychological drama from New Zealand will test the patience of most film viewers. The script - surrounding a young woman's interaction with a jailed child killer in the form of taped interviews - is woefully amateurish and delivered with all the conviction of a high school acting class. The feeble attempt at social insight into the psyche of a killer and the impact on family victims is eroded away by poor acting, limp pacing and stunningly uncreative and inept direction. An excruciating bore that explodes in the final scenes with an utterly predictable burst of violence. Credit goes the composer of the gloomy soundtrack who offers the only inkling of talent here.