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Kōrero: Humour

Goodbye Pork Pie, 1981

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A durable yellow Mini carries Goodbye Pork Pie's main characters from one end of New Zealand to the other. In this clip, they engage in some high-speed mayhem in downtown Wellington. Goodbye Pork Pie's anarchic energy was light years away from the 'unease' that supposedly characterised New Zealand cinema, and the film was a big box-office hit.

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Goodbye Pork Pie

Courtesy of Geoff Murphy and Nigel Hutchinson

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Caroline Harker, Humour – Humour on screen, 1970–2000, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/37532/goodbye-pork-pie-1981 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Caroline Harker, i tāngia i te 27 March 2012.