Poster of Starlight Hotel

Starlight Hotel

During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.

Release Date: 1987-11-27

Original Language: en

Genres: Unknown Genre

Rating:

Popularity:

1.862

Cast Members

Bruce Phillips

Kate's Father

Vanessa Young

Schoolgirl #1

Teresa Bonney

Schoolgirl #2

Duncan Anderson

Railway Foreman

Russell Gibson

Railway Worker

Marshall Napier

Det. Wallace

Craig Halkett

Farmer's Son

Laura Robertson

Panel Member

John Watson

School Teacher

Lee Matheson

Constable #2