Screenplay: Kate McDermott

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kate McDermott. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Nights in the Gardens of Spain

2010 · Movie · 76 min. · New Zealand

Direction Katie Wolfe

Cast Calvin Tuteao · Nathalie Boltt · George Henare · Vicky Haughton

Plot An apparently happy family man who must reveal a lifelong secret, that he is gay.

5.3

27 votes

5.3

27 votes

Nothing Trivial (TV Series)

2011 · Series · min. · New Zealand

Direction Gavin Strawhan · Rachel Lang · Mark Beesley · Murray Keane

Cast Blair Strang · Tandi Wright · Nicole Whippy · Debbie Newby-Ward

Plot A light-hearted and comedic drama based around five friends with two things in common: a pub quiz and the fact that each of them is unlucky or unhappy in love.

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Outrageous Fortune (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 45 min. · New Zealand

Direction Britta Hawkins · Simon Bennett · Mark Beesley · Murray Keane

Cast Robyn Malcolm · Antony Starr · Siobhan Marshall · Antonia Prebble

Plot When career criminal Wolfgang West gets put away for four years, his wife Cheryl decides it's time for her family to go straight. But can the Wests change the habits...

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800 Words (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 50 min. · New Zealand

Direction James Griffin · Maxine Fleming · Mike Smith · Michael Hurst

Cast Erik Thomson · Melina Vidler · Benson Jack Anthony · Michelle Langstone

Plot A recently widowed father quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a top-selling Sydney newspaper.

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Mystic (TV Series)

2020 · Series · min. · New Zealand

Direction Amy Shindler · Beth Chalmers · Aidee Walker · Michael Hurst

Cast Macey Chipping · Laura Patch · Cathy Downes · Kirk Torrance

Plot A group of horse-mad teenagers who are regulars at their local stables on the fictional peninsula of Kauri Point.

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Westside (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 60 min. · New Zealand

Direction Rachel Lang · James Griffin · Michael Hurst · Murray Keane

Cast Antonia Prebble · David De Lautour · Daniel Musgrove · Pana Hema Taylor

Plot Tales of crime and passion in Auckland, New Zealand, spanning from 1974 through to 1984.

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The Blue Rose (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 45 min. · New Zealand

Direction Rachel Lang · James Griffin · Michael Duignan · Mark Beesley

Cast Antonia Prebble · Siobhan Marshall · Matt Minto · Rajeev Varma

Plot The Blue Rose is a contemporary, smart investigative drama in which the lowly back-room office staff join forces to fight for justice in a corrupt corporate world.

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Step Dave (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 43 min. · New Zealand

Direction Kate McDermott · Britta Hawkins · Murray Keane · Michael Hurst

Cast Sia Trokenheim · Jono Kenyon · Rawiri Jobe · Aidee Walker

Plot TV series (2014-2015). 2 seasons. 26 episodes. Bartender Dave, a 24-year-old Kiwi slacker whose life is turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams; Cara, 15 years...

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