By Boyd van Hoeij A hard-to-handle foster kid from the big city and a grouchy bushman in his sixties ... in the New Zealand wilderness in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a deliciously good time at ...

The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (based on the novel Wild Pork and Watercress, by Barry Crump) becomes a kind of Thelma and Louise story about a bushman, a chubby boy, and a dog named Tupac.

(Reuters) - A New Zealand dramedy about a teenage boy forming an unlikely bond with his new foster father touches on emotional but not sentimental themes. "Hunt for the Wilderpeople," out in U.K ...

The Hunt for The Wilderpeople is his distinctive take on ... Sam Neill is in fine form as the taciturn bushman who reluctantly takes responsibility for the troubled foster child (Julian Dennison ...

Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople, while not as funny or original as his monster mash, is consistently amusing and filled with enough laughs to make its formulaic plot points easy to overlook.

Taika Waititi’s new Hunt for the Wilderpeople thrives on upending such preconceived notions. Once Ricky and Hector, or Hec (Sam Neill)—the latter an older bushman Bella cares for before she ...

Watch a film clip from "Hunt for the Wilderpeople," starring Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, and Rhys Darby. Photo: The Orchard Sometimes in life, a goofball preacher tells a tiny group of mourners in ...

Watch a film clip from ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople,’ starring Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, and Rhys Darby. Photo: The Orchard “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” is the biggest homegrown box-office ...

Ricky Baker is an orphaned juvenile delinquent, a “real bad egg,” as an onscreen title announces in “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” Taika Waititi’s endearingly playful adventure tale set in ...

“Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” a New Zealand comedy-drama, has become the highest-grossing release for the Orchard, earning north of $5 million. It is also setting records with its on-demand ...