Under the mountain [videorecording] / New Zealand Film Commission in association with NZ on Air, Footprint Investments LLP, 120dB Films and Fulcrum Media Finance present an Index Films/Liberty Films production.
Title from sell sheet. Based on the novel by Maurice Gee. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Special features: Writer and director commentaries ; The making of Under the mountain. Tom Cameron, Sophie McBride, Oliver Driver, Leon Wadham, Sam Neill, Chelsea McEwan-Millar, Nathaniel Lees, Nathan Meister, Matthew Sunderland.
Summary:
Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Where there was once a psychic bond between them, now there is a rift as Theo, particularly, refuses to confront his grief. Rachel reaches out to him, but is rebuffed. They visit Mt. Eden, where Theo sees Mr. Jones, a strange old man from whose hands fire seems to glow. Inside the mountain, he and Rachel find what can only be an alien environment.
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