The Hollow Men
Alister Barry2008-07-07
The inside story of a National Party election campaign
10
96 min
The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Nick Blake | Narrator (voice) | Unowned |
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Donald Brash | Self | Unowned |
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John Key | Self | Unowned |
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Bill English | Self | Unowned |
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Vaughan Slinn | Bryan Sinclair (voice) | Unowned |
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Julie Thorns | Diane Foreman (voice) | Unowned |
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Sam Snedden | Matthew Hooton (voice) | Unowned |
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Bruce Phillips | Peter Keenan (voice) | Unowned |
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Russell Campbell | Don Brash (voice) | Unowned |
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Mick Rose | Murray McCully (voice) | Unowned |
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Matthew Chamberlain | Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice) | Unowned |
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Phil Peleton | Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader | Unowned |
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John Bach | Michael Bassett (voice) | Unowned |
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Cohen Holloway | John Ansell (voice) | Unowned |
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Abi King-Jones | Anita Ferguson (voice) | Unowned |
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Rachel Weaver | Women's Focus Group Leader | Unowned |
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Chris Brooks | Doorman | Unowned |
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Melanie McLuskie | Restaurant Waitress | Unowned |
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Danika Morris-Brown | Banquet Waitress | Unowned |
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Rob Jerram | Rollscreen Man | Unowned |
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Simon Haren | Newspaper Deliverer | Unowned |
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Ray Heenan | NZ First Leaflet Deliverer | Unowned |
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Patrick Keenan | Exclusive Brethren Leaflet Deliverer | Unowned |
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David Grant | Diner | Unowned |
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Russell Campbell | Diner | Unowned |
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Mandy Hager | Train Passenger | Unowned |
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Paul Ashby | Autocue Operator | Unowned |
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Julia Hager | Pedestrian | Unowned |
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Elsie Jolliffe | Pedestrian | Unowned |
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Wang-Sook Lee | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Bonnie Warssold | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Kathy Dudding | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Ana Blake-Kelly | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Rebecca Pohlmann | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Sarah Stevenson | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Margaret Smith | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Lin Murphy | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Danny McManamon | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Nick Bond | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Samantha Woodhouse | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Freddy Fullmer | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Olive Margaret Smith | Focus Group Member | Unowned |
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Samantha Woodward | Focus Group Member | Unowned |