The Hollow Men (2008)
The inside story of a National Party election campaign
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.
- Date of release
- 2008-07-07
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Alister Barry
Casting
- Nick Blake — Narrator (voice)
- Donald Brash — Self
- John Key — Self
- Bill English — Self
- Vaughan Slinn — Bryan Sinclair (voice)
- Julie Thorns — Diane Foreman (voice)
- Sam Snedden — Matthew Hooton (voice)
- Bruce Phillips — Peter Keenan (voice)
- Russell Campbell — Don Brash (voice)
- Mick Rose — Murray McCully (voice)
- Matthew Chamberlain — Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice)
- Phil Peleton — Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader
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