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When the producers of “Other Halves” approached Lisa Harrow in London in 1983, she was immediately attracted to the role of Liz Harvey, the 32-year-old, middle-class white woman who forms a relationship with a 16-year-old street kid (Mark Pilisi). She had read and admired Sue McCauley’s novel and felt the story explored contemporary issues important in this country. McCauley, in fact, had based the novel on her own experiences in Christchurch in the early and mid-70s. Because the sociological problems which she described so graphically are more sharply delineated and numerically greater in Auckland, the film is set in that city. Pilisi stepped straight off the streets of Auckland into the made-to-measure role of Tug Morton with a rare and totally appropriate qualification for the role: he was a real-life street kid.
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