Kaiaua 2005: a small New Zealand village on the
western coast of the Hauraki Gulf. Pop: 273 - 2320 cows - 8732 shearing sheep - 32 cattle dogs - 18 horses. A successful part-Maori Hollywood starlet (Kaiaua born and bred) rated at #54 on the circuit, gets time transported from a 2005 Kaiaua car parking lot, back to a 1961 Kaiaua (same geographical address) cow paddock….. She was diagnosed
4 hours p
rior to boarding her Auckland flight (LA
- 2005) as having throat cancer. In NZ 1961, there’s no medical knowledge of the disease - no cancer cures. She finds real people, real friends, real home values, eating juicy green lipped mussels and daily sprouting pink-flesh mushrooms. She beats Bruce McLaren in a
car race in the middle of the night, makes great mates with Ed Hillary, the local bee keeper, and sings ABBA, Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison and Gypsy Kings to an Auckland niteclub audience. She throws a ritzy 2005 Hollywood party in a
Kaiaua sheep paddock just for the hang of it - singing a 1970’s Beatles song with Cliff Richards, a very young Tim Finn, the Shadows and Glenn Campbell. Then watches hokey-pokey honey ice cream being introduced to
Kaiaua gourmet connoisseurs - well all three of them anyway. Slowly realising she’s in love with her 2005 fellow time-traveller. It’s a light hearted chick-flick, timetravel, New Zealand comedy with a lot of post 1961 music thrown in. Its movie genre is possibly of the same ilk as those of Working Title Films, like the subtle humour in ‘Death at a Funeral,’ and Notting Hill, Love Actually, The Boat that
Rocked. It has a 1960’s New Zealand simple country imagery, that takes you to a Kiwi-ised, Back to the Future musical that has a cancer cure answer for the main character.The theme is to show that cancer can be cured using different natural methodologys that
the big (Millenium) pharamaceuticals DON’T want us to know about.