Sundance 2010: Taiki Waititi's BOY Plays Like a Kiwi SON OF RAMBOW With Added Michael Jackson.

When the official Sundance lineup was released a little while back and the trade papers began their annual crying about how depressing everything was I can only presume that they were ignoring Taiki Waititi's Boy.  Because the latest from the director of Eagle Versus Shark is a full on charmer, a whimsical coming of age story that looks to occupy a sweet spot somewhere between Wes Anderson, Garth Jennings and Spike Jonze territory.

It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king--even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version--an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.

The first trailer has just arrived. Check it below.