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Five generations tell Mariano and Elizabeth Vella's story of love, tragedy and survival. Their voices are married to cartoon likenesses. The film opens with Mariano and Elizabeth's great great granddaughter and ends with Elizabeth herself describing her first-hand experience of New Zealand's third-worst maritime disaster in which approximately 131 people lost their lives...
The film also enacts the drama of the ship foundering. A Very Nice Honeymoon takes its name from an ironic remark Elizabeth makes during the film. Mariano and Elizabeth were on their honeymoon at the time of the disaster. | |
