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Aftershock

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2008 · 93 min Drama
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.

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Year 2008
Country New Zealand
Genre Drama
Director Brendan Donovan
Runtime 93 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (5 votes)

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The film constructs its tension not through spectacle, but through intimate human stories, exploring how disaster strips away social veneers to reveal our core instincts—from panic to profound sacrifice.

What lingers after the credits is not the imagery of destruction, but the quiet echoes of choices made under impossible pressure, and the fragile connections that somehow hold. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Brendan Donovan

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