West of Eden (2017) on Netflix
NR20171h 58mDramaRomanceWestern
Billy, a young Māori man, leaves home when rumors about him draw hostility and a beating. He takes work on the Henshaw farm and grows close to the farmer's son, Tom.
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New Zealand, 1960. After rumors at his workplace bring hostility and a beating, Billy leaves his mother and brother Joe and hitchhikes to the Henshaw farm, the largest in the district, wearing the cowboy hat and boots of his idol James Dean. The farm belongs to the brothers Frank and Eddie. Frank shares the main house with Eva and their teenage children Tess and Tom, while Eddie and his wife Ruth have the cottage across the way. Frank takes Billy on partly because Tom shows no interest in farming. Tom shows an interest in Billy instead, and Billy, aware of how people treat any hint of homosexuality, holds back. Danny Birch, the head drover, is bitter that the Henshaws took his family's fortune, and plans to marry Tess to win it back.
