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Robin Murphy Productions is an independent production company, dedicated to developing and producing quality short films, feature films and webseries.
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TV/streamer series work includes Outrageous Fortune, Power...
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TV/streamer series work includes Outrageous Fortune, Power Rangers, Sweet Tooth (pilot), One Of Us Is Lying (S1), The Gone (S1) and After The Party. Since the late 1990’s, I’ve juggled my freelance crew work with developing and producing short films, feature films and web series.
View full company info for Robin Murphy Productions. 1. Punch (I) (2022) 98 min | Drama, Sport. 6.3. Rate this. Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.
Robin has worked in the New Zealand film industry as a freelancer for over 40 years on a variety of local and international productions, including feature films, television drama, TVC’s and more recently Webseries.
- Punch Is About A Young Boxer Fighting Expectations
- Strong Characters Despite Tired Tropes
- The Great Tim Roth and A Young Cinematographer Make Punch Powerful
Punchis set in a very small beach town in New Zealand where Jim lives alone with his father, Stan. Jim is preparing for his biggest fight yet, with Stan training him extensively in their makeshift gym attached to the house. Through a prosaic, patient first act, the film follows the young man as he trains, spends time with his friends and girlfriend...
While Oosterhoff spent a lot of time boxing in preparation, sometimes training for hours a day, five days a week, Punch isn't exactly a boxing film; it's more Call Me by Your Name than Creed. It certainly does feature realistic boxing sequences (and a very fit Oosterhoff), but if anything, Punch is an anti-boxing film. Boxing becomes correlated wit...
Roth, however, doesn't come from any other film; his performance as Stan is one of the best aspects of Punch, and one of its most magnetic characters. He doesn't speak much, but Roth works wonders with the lack of dialogue, imbuing a bevy of fatigue, guilt, love, and stubbornness into Stan even if he isn't running his mouth with a stunning monologu...
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Produced by: Robin Murphy, Catherine Fitzgerald. Production Company: Robin Murphy Productions. Production year: 2022. Release year: 2022. Country: New Zealand. Language: English. Duration: 98 mins. Synopsis: Jim is a seventeen-year-old boxer in a small town.
