Shoreline Cinema in Waikanae is showing the highly regarded murder mystery The Sheep Detectives.
With an all-star cast the film follows George Hardy (Hugh Jackman), a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit.
When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realise at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop Tim Derry (Nicholas Braun), on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Rhys Darby, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Nicholas Galitzine, Emma Thompson, Nicholas Braun, Brett Goldstein, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau
Director: Kyle Balda
Screenplay: Craig Mazin
For Bookings and Showing times see: https://shorelinecinema.co.nz/movies/796