The Hollow Men

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Alister Barry

Writers

Abi King-Jones, Russell Campbell, Alister Barry

Language

English

Country

New Zealand

Release date

7 July 2008

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Nick Blake

  Narrator (voice)

• Donald Brash

  Self

• John Key

  Self

• Bill English

  Self

• 

  Vaughan Slinn

  Bryan Sinclair (voice)

• Julie Thorns

  Diane Foreman (voice)

• 

  Sam Snedden

  Matthew Hooton (voice)

• 

  Bruce Phillips

  Peter Keenan (voice)

• Russell Campbell

  Don Brash (voice)

• 

  Mick Rose

  Murray McCully (voice)

• 

  Matthew Chamberlain

  Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice)

• 

  Phil Peleton

  Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader