

The Hollow Men
1 hour 36 minutes2008-07-07
10.0
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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

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

John Bach
Michael Bassett (voice)

Cohen Holloway
John Ansell (voice)

Abi King-Jones
Anita Ferguson (voice)

Rachel Weaver
Women's Focus Group Leader

Chris Brooks
Doorman

Melanie McLuskie
Restaurant Waitress

Danika Morris-Brown
Banquet Waitress

Rob Jerram
Rollscreen Man

Simon Haren
Newspaper Deliverer

Ray Heenan
NZ First Leaflet Deliverer

Patrick Keenan
Exclusive Brethren Leaflet Deliverer

David Grant
Diner

Russell Campbell
Diner

Mandy Hager
Train Passenger

Paul Ashby
Autocue Operator

Julia Hager
Pedestrian

Elsie Jolliffe
Pedestrian

Wang-Sook Lee
Focus Group Member

Bonnie Warssold
Focus Group Member

Kathy Dudding
Focus Group Member

Ana Blake-Kelly
Focus Group Member

Rebecca Pohlmann
Focus Group Member

Sarah Stevenson
Focus Group Member

Margaret Smith
Focus Group Member

Lin Murphy
Focus Group Member

Danny McManamon
Focus Group Member

Nick Bond
Focus Group Member

Samantha Woodhouse
Focus Group Member

Freddy Fullmer
Focus Group Member

Olive Margaret Smith
Focus Group Member
