In the aftermath of an explosion that rocked the Pike River Mine and took the lives of 29 West Coasters, two women step up to fight for accountability.
Acting
Lynskey and Malcolm: volcanic grief, zero melodrama.
Direction
Sarkies captures the suffocation of institutional indifference.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like actual humans, not Oscar bait.
Director
Robert Sarkies
Melanie Lynskey
Anna Osborne
Robyn Malcolm
Sonya Rockhouse
Erroll Shand
Pete Cahill
Madeleine McCarthy
Alisha Osborne
Jordan Mooney
Tony Sutorius
Ben Porter
Rob Osborne
Peter Tait
Rowdy Durbridge
Elizabeth Hawthorne
Kath Monk
Dra McKay
Joe Hall
John Leigh
Milton Osborne
Barnie Duncan
Laurie Drew
Eryn Wilson
Tommy Daly
Richard Crouchley
Ben Rockhouse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robyn Malcolm spent months with real Sonya Rockhouse; their matching tattoos made headlines.
The 2010 explosion remains NZ's worst workplace disaster; this film reopened wounds politicians preferred sealed.
NZ
