Scarfies

Scarfies (released as Crime 101 in the United States) is a 1999 New Zealand black comedy film set in the southern university city of Dunedin.

Scarfies starts off as a light comedy centred on a group of five students who get together after moving into a flat that is seemingly abandoned, but still has the power on, making it a free but filthy accommodation.

The inadvertent discovery of a large crop of marijuana being grown in the basement leads to euphoria among the students.

Dreams of financial freedom among them overtake paranoia about the ethics and the risks, and the students foolishly sell the entire crop for $50,000 (as much as $200,000 less than it is worth).

Despite the deliberate use of shots focusing on the city's dowdier and darker elements, much of the film's photography and soundtrack is an homage to the city, including the use of several Dunedin sound songs in the soundtrack (top local band The Clean even make a cameo appearance during the film).