Hunt for the Wilder People

• Ricky Baker is a kid with a checkered past, having bounced around in the New Zealand foster-care system for his entire childhood.
• When Ricky is placed in Uncle Hec and Aunt Bella's home, he feels a sense of belonging and family for the first time.
• Uncle Hector ("Hec") serves as Ricky's mentor, an older and somewhat gruff man who initially is unsure of how to relate to the unwieldy boy.
• Paula is the dedicated and militant child welfare worker who is first tasked with putting Ricky into a good foster home, often to villainous and humorous extremes.
• Bella Faulkner is Hec's wife and Ricky's foster mother, who connects with Ricky in sensitive ways, even though he is exceedingly antisocial when he first arrives at her house.
• The film is set in New Zealand, primarily in west Auckland's Waitakere Ranges, following Hec and Baker on the run.
• The Waitakere Ranges are made up of forested hills covering over 39,500 acres.
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an adventure film, following reclusive country folk, Bella and Hector, as they become foster parents to Ricky, a problem child from the city.
• After some adjustment, things go reasonably well between Bella and Ricky, but her death means that Hector must now look after Ricky himself, and they haven't been getting along.
• Child Services decides to send Ricky back to the orphanage after Bella's death, but Ricky refuses to go back and runs away, sparking a national manhunt for him and Hector.
• Ricky Baker: I'll never stop running! Paula: Yeah, and I'll never stop chasing you - I'm relentless, I'm like the Terminator.
• Paula: I said it first, you're more like Sarah Connor, and in the first movie too, before she could do chinups.