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- ↑ "Film review - Graeme Tuckett". Radio New Zealand. 17 March 2011.
- ↑ "Movie Review - I'm Not Harry Jenson".
- ↑ Calder, Peter (29 January 2010). "I'm not Harry Jenson". The New Zealand Herald.
