Avatar (2009 film) and Boris Strugatsky, which are set in the 22nd century on a forested world called Pandora with a sentient indigenous species called the Nave. Various reviews have compared "Avatar" to the films "", "Pocahontas" and "The Last Samurai." NPR's "Morning Edition" has compared the film to a montage of tropes, with one commentator stating that "Avatar" was made by "mixing a bunch of film scripts in a blender". Gary Westfahl wrote that "the science fiction story that most closely resembles "Avatar" has to be Ursula Le Guin's novella "The Word for World Is Forest" (1972), another epic about a benevolent
The Whole of the Moon (film) is shockingly diagnosed with cancer. At the hospital, he meets ex-streetkid Marty (Nikki Si'ulep), who seems to be the exact opposite of him. Despite their differences, Kirk soon develops a first antagonistic, and later friendly relationship with Marty. One night, the two sneak out of the hospital to have one final fling of freedom. The movie was filmed in Auckland, New Zealand. The Whole of the Moon (film) The Whole of the Moon is a 1997 New Zealand film about a teenager who is diagnosed with cancer. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Lymposs,