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Show of Hands

(2007)
(Endurance)
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Based on a true story, Endurance is a gruesome and living demonstration of survival of the fittest, centred around a car yard in an everyday suburb (Lower Hutt), where a struggling car dealership stages an endurance competition in which a brand new Ford Explorer will be given to whomever can keep their hand on the vehicle the longest. At the same time, the contest serves as a metaphor for all the ways in which the characters, in their private lives, are enduring some kind of personal ordeal.


Genre: General Fiction

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