Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a 2016 English-language Adventure Comedy movie written and directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne Saunders and Taika Waititi. Bella and Hector, two reclusive country folk, become foster parents to Ricky, a problem child from the city. After some adjustment, things go reasonably well. However, the death of Bella means Hector now has to look after Ricky, and they didn't get along too well. over, her death causes Child Services to decide to send Ricky back to the orphanage. Ricky refuses to go back and runs away, ultimately sparking a national manhunt for him and Hector. Written by grantss. Hunt for the wilderpeople features Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Tioreore Ngatai-melbourne and Sam Wallace. The screenplay is written by Taika Waititi which is inspired from Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump. The music was composed by Lukasz Buda along with Samuel Scott and Conrad Wedde. Cinematography was done by Lachlan Milne and editing by Luke Haigh, Tom Eagles and Yana Gorskaya. The film has a running time of 101 minutes. It was released on 31st March 2016 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Hunt for the Wilderpeople was made on a budget of $2 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $22 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Piki Films.