Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 06/15/07 (LA & NY) 06/22/07 (Moderate) 07/20/07 (St. Louis) Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated R for language, some sexuality, and brief animated violence Running Time 1 hour 27 minutes Genre Comedy Director Taika Waititi Writer Taika Waititi Cast Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement, Brian Sergent, Rachel House, Craig Hall, Joel Tobeck, Jackie van Beek Studio Miramax Films |
EAGLE VS SHARK
SYNOPSIS
From New Zealand comes a wickedly offbeat love
story like no other – a funny, fractured romance
between two total misfits, woven into an all-
consuming quest for revenge, and shot through
with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human
condition. EAGLE vs. SHARK introduces the
original and delightfully different vision of writer-
director Taika Waititi, a young Kiwi comic star, who
won an Academy Award® nomination for his short
film “Two Cars, One Night,” which premiered to
acclaim at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
It all begins with Lily (Loren Horsley), a lonely
oddball and fast-food waitress who happens to be
a hopeless romantic. Then there’s Jarrod
(Jemaine Clement), the man of Lily’s dreams,
another lonely oddball and video game clerk, who
has spent the last decade plotting ultimate
vengeance on a bully from his high school past.
When these two connect at a “dress as your
favorite animal” party, she’s an anemic Shark and
he’s a fluffy-headed Eagle. It’s a match that seems
made in outcast heaven, but when Lily decides to
risk everything for love, her hopes are nearly
dashed. After a brief fling, Jarrod dumps Lily
because he’s too busy “training” for his all-
important payback mission. But neither of them
From New Zealand comes a wickedly offbeat love
story like no other – a funny, fractured romance
between two total misfits, woven into an all-
consuming quest for revenge, and shot through
with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human
condition. EAGLE vs. SHARK introduces the
original and delightfully different vision of writer-
director Taika Waititi, a young Kiwi comic star, who
won an Academy Award® nomination for his short
film “Two Cars, One Night,” which premiered to
acclaim at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
It all begins with Lily (Loren Horsley), a lonely
oddball and fast-food waitress who happens to be
a hopeless romantic. Then there’s Jarrod
(Jemaine Clement), the man of Lily’s dreams,
another lonely oddball and video game clerk, who
has spent the last decade plotting ultimate
vengeance on a bully from his high school past.
When these two connect at a “dress as your
favorite animal” party, she’s an anemic Shark and
he’s a fluffy-headed Eagle. It’s a match that seems
made in outcast heaven, but when Lily decides to
risk everything for love, her hopes are nearly
dashed. After a brief fling, Jarrod dumps Lily
because he’s too busy “training” for his all-
important payback mission. But neither of them
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can anticipate just what kind of grit the passively optimistic Lily will show in her heartbreak. As Jarrod’s
day of reckoning arrives, and everything hits the fan, Jarrod and Lily will find something that goes
beyond romantic fantasies and revenge -- faith in who they are.
©Sundance Film Festival
day of reckoning arrives, and everything hits the fan, Jarrod and Lily will find something that goes
beyond romantic fantasies and revenge -- faith in who they are.
©Sundance Film Festival