Starlight Hotel

Year: 1987

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Director: Sam Pillsbury

Drama

In the Depression, teen Kate of New Zealand’s South Island loses her mother; when her father moves to Wellington, she’s sent to an aunt but runs away, hopping a boxcar. She meets Patrick, a scarred WWI veteran on the run. Posing as father and daughter, they travel the country, sleeping under the stars and helping farmers and squatters in the crisis.

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