"Eagle vs. Shark," is a little movie from New Zealand which is everything that "Napoleon Dynamite" failed to be in my eyes. It's a charming, funny tale of social misfits.
Lily (Loren Horsley) is a lonely, weird, sweet girl who lives with her kind by inept older brother. She develops a crush on Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) who goes into the fast food place she works at every day on his lunch break. After her co-worker, whom Jarrod has a crush on, throws away a party invitation, Lily decides that she will go and impress this geeky man who has the same mole she does.
She and her brother crash the costume party (dressed as a shark and tarantula respectively) and Lily proceeds to get Jarrod's attention by beating everyone at a video game she has never played. It comes down to Lily and Jarrod in the final and she just can't pay attention to the game because she is standing next to him (he is dressed as an eagle in case you wondered about the title.)
The two hook up and Lily and her brother end up driving Jarrod to his hometown so that he can wreak vengeance on a school bully who is returning from Samoa. It turns out that he also has problems with his family, particularly his dead brother.
Jarrod is more haunted than he lets on and Lily is much stronger than even she could imagine.
This is a funny, odd love story that deserves a wide audience.
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