The Hollow Men (2008)

10.0/10 96 min Documentary

Overview

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)

Vaughan Slinn

Bryan Sinclair (voice)

Sam Snedden

Matthew Hooton (voice)

Bruce Phillips

Peter Keenan (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)

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