Het is 1984, en Michael Jackson is de king of pop. Zelfs in Waihau Bay, Nieuw-Zeeland. Boy, een elfjarige jongen, woont op de boerderij van zijn oma met zijn jongere broer, Rocky (die denkt dat hij magische krachten bezit). Niet lang nadat zijn oma voor een week vertrekt, verschijnt Boy zijn vader, Alamein, uit het niets. Omdat hij een heroïsche versie van zijn vader had verzonnen, komt Boy erachter hoe zijn vader echt is. Die is namelijk alleen maar teruggekeerd om een zak met geld op te graven dat hij verstopt had na een overval.
Nee, helaas is Boy nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Writing | Taika Waititi | Writer |
| Directing | Taika Waititi | Director |
| Camera | Adam Clark | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Lukasz Pawel Buda | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Conrad Wedde | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Amanda Neale | Costume Design |
| Art | Shayne Radford | Production Design |
| Sound | Samuel Scott | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Cliff Curtis | Producer |
| Production | Emanuel Michael | Producer |
| Production | Tina Cleary | Casting |
| Editing | Chris Plummer | Editor |
| Production | Richard Fletcher | Associate Producer |
| Production | Georgina Allison Conder | Line Producer |
| Production | Ainsley Gardiner | Producer |
| Production | Merata Mita | Co-Producer |
| Directing | Marc Ashton | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Michael Hedges | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Camera | Dion Hartley | Key Grip |
| Editing | Heidi Freeman | First Assistant Editor |
| Crew | Simon Pattison | Scenic Artist |
| Production | Ardy Matthews | Location Manager |
| Sound | Jo Fraser | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Simon Riley | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Jason Canovas | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Matthew Lambourn | Sound Effects Editor |
| Camera | Cinzia Puspita Rini | Still Photographer |
| Lighting | Trevor Stark | Rigging Gaffer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tymone Winter Betts | Seamstress |
| Sound | Tim Prebble | Sound Designer |
| Crew | Augie Davis | Stunt Coordinator |
| Camera | Darryl Ward | Still Photographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dannelle Satherley | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dannelle Satherley | Hair Designer |
| Sound | Chris Todd | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Camera | Matt Grace | Still Photographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hayden Bloomfield | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hayden Bloomfield | Key Hair Stylist |
| Camera | Melissa Ririnui | Dolly Grip |
| Lighting | Gilly Lawrence | Gaffer |
| Sound | Gilbert Lake | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |