- The Grasscutter
Infobox Film
name = The Grasscutter
imdb_id = 0099695
writer = Roy Mitchell
starring =Terence Cooper ,Martin Maguire ,Ian McElhinney
director =Ian Mune
producer =Tom Finlayson
genre = Crime / Action
distributor = Central Independent Television PLC (UK)
released =1990
runtime = 110 minutes
language = English
budget = $Unknown"The Grasscutter" is a 1990
film directed byIan Mune and written byRoy Mitchell . It was shot in southernNew Zealand , mostly in Queenstown andDunedin .The music was written by
Don McGlashan andWayne Laird .A landscape architect (Cooper) living in New Zealand finds that his past catches up with him.
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) loyalists fromNorthern Ireland have discovered the new identity he was given after becoming a "supergrass" and come after him, drastically increasing New Zealand's violent crime rate in the process.References
* Martin, Helen and Edwards, Sam, "New Zealand Film 1912-1996", Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0-19-558336-1
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