Out of the Blue

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Theatrical Release Date:

10/19/2007

DVD Release Date:

06/10/2008

Run Time:

102min.

Starring:

Karl Urban , Matthew Sunderland , Lois Lawn , Simon Ferry , Tandi Wright

Director(s):

Robert Sarkies

Distributor(s):

IFC

MPAA Rating:

Not Rated

Genre(s):

Drama

Plot: Out of the Blue, New Zealand writer-director Robert Sarkies' long-awaited follow-up to his 1999 feature debut, Scarfies, recreates the events that led up to and surrounded David Gray's November 13, 1990 mass murder of 13 locals in the town of ... Read More

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'Out of the Blue' Finally Gets an Opening

by Kim Voynar

Well, it's about time. I caught Out of the Blue at Toronto in 2006, and then only because a wonderfully persistent PR guy encouraged me repeatedly to check it out. It wasn't that I didn't want to see it -- Toronto is just a huge fest, and with so many...

Out of the Blue Picked Up By Weinsteins and IFC

by Kim Voynar

Out of the Blue, a dramatization of the1990 Aramoana Massacre in New Zealand, when local resident David Gray went on a mad rampage, killing 13 people, including four children, in the small coastal town where he'd lived his whole life, was one of the most...

TIFF Review: Out of the Blue

by Kim Voynar

In Out of the Blue, director Robert Sarkies chronicles the 1990 Aramoana massacre that ripped apart a peaceful New Zealand town. Other parts of the world might have violence and murder, but in this small coastal town where everyone knew everyone else, the...

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Last month at TIFF, I reviewed a film called Out of the Blue, about the massacre that took place in the quiet town of Aramoana, New Zealand in 1990. David Gray, a lifelong resident of the town whose mental health had been deteriorating for some time,...