Wah Do Dem

aka: What They Do
USA 2009, 76 minutes
Dir. Sam Fleischner, Ben Chace
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama, Comedy / Independent, Road Movie

Topics: Drugs & Alcohol.

Feat. Sean Bones, Carl Bradshaw, Norah Jones

Aroview: A young indie musician suffers solo through a disaster-prone Caribbean holiday in this shaggy road movie with a sweetly comic sensibility.

Largely improvised, it's a sometimes rickety affair that at worst comes across like an excuse for the film-makers to indulge some travel, and lead Sean Bones makes for an inscrutable 'slacker'. But once settled on Jamaican soil, the film finds its rhythm as a loose travelogue that taps into an authentic vibe, and provides an overdue and welcome return to a unique culture last widely seen in the cult classics THE HARDER THEY COME and ROCKERS. Pop chanteuse Norah Jones is billed in the cast, but her appearance is pure cameo.

NZ International Film Festival 2010