Tina

Tina is a movie you root for. You root for the Samoan main character, Mareta, (Anapela Polataivao) who lives in New Zealand, and you root for her students, a choir in a ritzy high school comprised of white students. By the end of the movie, you jump up and cheer. We first meet Mareta as a teacher in a down-and-out school. After her daughter dies in an earthquake, Mareta retires from life in grief. Her sad face tells the story of her life. She reluctantly takes a substitute teacher job at the rich posh school where she befriends a troubled child, starts a choir and makes the troubled kid the head chorister. Mareta comes back to life and defeats obstacles – one of the school leaders doesn’t want her because she has dark skin – and finally brings the choir to a national competition. The film has echoes of Stand and Deliver, the classic movie of overcoming the odds, and Tina delivers. New Zealand  2024 (124 minutes) 

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