She-Shz
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scriptwriter; director; content warning; running time.
SHE *
1/2 setting: other
(2001) (/U.K./Italy/Bulgaria) Ian Duncan, Opheile
Winter, Marie Baumer, Martina Colombari, Edward Hardwicke, Gotz Otto, David
Ross, Christoph Waltz, Silvio Oliviero, Jennifer Podemski.....Trio
of 19th Century Englishmen (Duncan, Hardwicke, and Ross -- the latter two
under-billed)
head off into the African wilderness in pursuit of a lost civilization
ruled over by She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. Low-budget adventure-fantasy is made
by some of the same people as did an earlier, fun version of The
Lost World. Despite the limited budget, the (lead) actors are okay
and, more importantly, give some nuance to their roles. And it starts out
okay as a throw back to cheesy, low-budget Saturday matinee serials and
Drive-In movies. But goes off the rails as it progresses, getting cheesier
and sillier, with the characters not interesting enough to make us care;
sometimes sticking to the source novel...sometimes diverging wildly, with
a climax that is lifted from the novel...but doesn't make any sense here!
And that's not even addressing the fact that it doesn't look like Africa
and there are almost no non-white people in the entire cast (even the Arabs
are played by white guys)! H. Rider Haggard's famous novel (which isn't
even acknowledged in the credits!) has been filmed many times over the
years...and few film versions are well regarded -- maybe it's just a difficult
story to adapt. The only Canadians in the cast are Oliviero (as a Bedouin
chief) and Podemski (as the leader of a cult within the lost tribe) --
neither of whom have more than a few lines. sc: Peter Welbeck, Peter Jobin
(from the novel by H. Rider Haggard). dir: Timothy Bond. - violence, casual
male nudity.- 102 min.
SHE'S THE MAYOR (TV Series)Reflecting the odd synergy that seems to occasionally crop up in Canadian TV, this followed shortly on the heels of the conceptually similar Dan for Mayor. And in the midst of the current, slick, sly Canadian comedies hitting the airwaves, this has a bit of a clunky, Old School feel -- a bit broad, a bit heavy handed and prone to mugging, it misses as often as it hits...yet ultimately does have a certain good natured charm, with a sprightly pace and a personable cast (Wentworth is a scene stealer, Williams pretty, etc.). Stopping short of Wentworth's character being a simple villain lends the show a bit of dimension, as does the sexual tension between Laine-Green and him -- a nice touch that a series about borderline senior citizen protagonists would indulge in sexual tension, and pull it off to boot. Created by Jennifer Holness, Min Sook Lee, Sudz Sutherland. Half hour episodes on Vision TV. |
SHEHAWEH (TVMS) *
setting: CDN./other
(1993) (/France) Marina Orsini, Monique Mercure, Pierre
Curzi, Annie Galipeau, Denis Bernard.....Story of a Native Indian girl
(Orsini) who is kidnapped from her people in the 1600s and raised by the
French, and the various humiliations and tragedies she suffers. Truly awful
drama seems like they were making it up as they went along, with characters
and storylines coming out of nowhere then disappearing again, no real plot,
and inconsistencies in characterization even within the same scene. It
also suffers from perpetually fuzzy cinematography and Beaudin's usual
silly direction. Painted white-woman Orsini seems really unsure of her
part, too, spending a lot of time alternating between giving primordial
screams and looking stoic in various stages of undress (with hair judiciously
covering her anatomy). It seems to think it's sincere and earnest, but
it plays like a really bad romance novel. Dubbed version of the French
language mini-series. Five hour long episodes. sc: Fernand Dansereau, with
Jacques Gary. dir: Jean Beaudin. - partial female nudity, sexual content,
violence.-
THE SHELDON KENNEDY STORY
* * 1/2 setting: CDN/USA.
SHELLGAME
* * setting: Ont.
SHELLY
* setting: B.C.
SHEPHERD
*
Sherlock Holmes.....The
quintessential detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the 19th
Century has enjoyed considerable life in film and television, with many
versions -- adaptations and pastiches -- over the years, and many actors
assuming the classic role. Canadians have tackled the character once or
twice. There was the feature film pastiche, Murder
by Decree, with Canadian Christopher Plummer as Holmes, and British
actor James Mason as sidekick Dr. Watson, investigating the real life crimes
of Jack the Ripper. In the 21st Century came a series of made-for-TV movies
featuring the all-Canadian duo of Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh. So far
these have been energetic romps, with Frewer's decidedly singular interpretation
of Holmes nicely matched by Welsh's more sturdy portrait of Watson. With
the exception of actor Jason London in one, all the guest stars have been
Canadian too. The only sour note is the fact that the films are unauthorized.
Most of the Holmes stories have entered the public domain, so permission
is not required from Doyle's estate, but most versions (film, TV, comics,
etc.) still seek that permission as just a matter of good sportsmanship.
So far the Frewer/Welsh films have included: The
Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign
of Four, Royal Scandal and
The
Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (the last not actually based on
a Doyle story). The first three were aired on CTV, the fourth on CanWest-Global.
Other Canadian versions include a 1960s CBC radio adaptation of "The Noble
Bachelor" with Robert (Beachcombers) Clothier
as Holmes as well as a feature-length production of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
British-born Canadian actor John Neville played Holmes (years before emigrating
to Canada) in a British movie.
SHIVERS *
* setting: P.Q.
SHOCK CHAMBER
* * setting: Ont./USA.
Shock Treatment
* * 1/2
SHOCKTRAUMA *
setting: USA.
SHOEMAKER *
* 1/2 setting: Ont.
This series is a well-intentioned attempt to tell a smart, adult crime-thriller, mixing the pulpy thrills of clandestine meetings and murders with more cerebral scenes of characters in offices chewing over the facts and ethical dilemmas. Though entirely fictional, it deliberately (and cheekily) gives a nod to recent Toronto infamy, with central to the story being a compromising video of a politician the characters are trying to get hold of (in shades of the Mayor Rob Ford crack video scandal). As well it tries to deal unsensationalistically with aspects of big city multiculturalism (although some of the hoods and drug dealers are Somalia-Canadian Muslims -- the plot isn't about cliched "terrorism" and the characters are given depth and motivation). But the reason I say it's well-intentioned is that it never quite works as well as it wants to -- falling short of being, say, a Canadian answer to the fine U.K. mini-series, "State of Play."
Part of the problem is that for all the twists and turns and the large cast of characters interacting -- it rarely manages to be too surprising or intriguing. Because we're looking in on characters the heroes aren't, we often know ahead of time the information the heroes are still pursuing, and the goals and motivations of the characters are pretty straightforward. Which is problematic -- given the plot must carry us through eight hours. Likewise, the characters themselves -- though well acted -- aren't especially interesting or engaging or memorable. Levesque's character starts out as the trite perky-naive-female-jr-journalist, then they try to give her some depth by throwing into the mix that she's a recovering addict -- but that's the kind of the other cliche of reporter heroes. Combining them in one character doesn't make them less cliched, but does seem contradictory. And the direction maybe lacks some of that cinema verité kineticism you might expect from big city newsroom dramas.
With all that said: this isn't by any means bad. It does clip along well enough, the actors are solid, there are a lot of threads to keep track of. It just never sparks enough to go from a decent drama to a great one. It also feels a tad toothless, like it skirts around meaty social and political issues, but never quite bites down, more just setting up obvious targets of mob connected politicians than really tackling issues of race, politics, the role of the press (in an era that might be the beginning of the end of traditional print journalism). Indeed, the fact that the program embraces the idea of "cucks" (look it up) as a real thing, as opposed to an Alt-Right fetish/slur used against liberals is odd, as is the idea that the story hinges on a politician fearing a revelation that he's bi-sexual would kill his career (when in real life, Ontario's premiere is an out lesbian!) -- honestly, I think the sex parties he attended would be more damaging to his reputation (admittedly, maybe that's why the filmmakers chose to focus on the sexuality -- so the viewer would still feel some sympathy for him). Created by Jennifer Holness & Sudz Sutherland. Hour long episodes on the CBC.
SHORT CHANGE *
1/2 setting: CDN.
Short films.....Short
films (those just under a half hour) are often made independently by aspiring
or even established filmmakers, intended for theatrical exhibition at film
festivals. There have also been many anthology series made expressly for
television by a single production company or network. These series' are
often more professional than the independents, with all episodes revolving
around themes. Examples like Global Playhouse,
Inside Stories, The Twilight Zone, The Hidden Room, The Ray Bradbury Theater,
Adventures in History, The Hitchhiker, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Alfred
Hitchcock Presents, Saying Goodbye and others are covered under their
respective titles. Independent films are usually less polished, but much
more ambitious and quirky...and varied in quality. These films air on television
under such banners as the CBC's afternoon show Canadian Reflections,
Global's irregular New Producers series, or by themselves as fillers
in otherwise empty time-slots. Some never make it to TV at all. There has
never been an attempt to do a "best of..." show, selecting the best and
brightest from such programs. As a starter, here are a list of just some
of the more notable independently produced short films, some are off-beat
and high-minded, others have no greater ambition than to be entertaining.
Some dramatic ones are: "Albert", an odd serio-comic monologue delivered
by actor Charlie Tomlinson; "The Art of Being" with Andrea Moodie
as an aspiring artist; "Inside/Out" about a woman's (Emma Richler)
attempt to withdraw from the world; "Kinnip Drumbo" a surrealistic
last-man-on-earth tale; "Lost Innocence" about street kids featuring
some high profile cameos; "Saeed" about an immigrant's attempt to
contact kin who don't know he exists; "Stealing Images" with Lubomir
Mykytiuk as an odd filmmaker; "Watershed" about a man trying to
deal with his fear of a lake. Funny ones include:
"The Critical Years"
about
a man's confessions to his psychiatrist;
"The Gibbons: Canada's Fighting
Elite" a mocumentary about an army unit; the engaging "Lunch With
Harry's Dancer" starring Greg Ellwand; the Genie Award winning
"The
Mysterious Moon Men of Canada" with Gerry Quigley; and the sci-fi/adveture
spoof "The Unbelievable Story of Ellison Spinrad, Aria von Sniper and
the Puzzle of Easy Enlightenment" with Duncan Ollerenshaw and Randy
Lobb. "The Rainbow Bar and Grill" was a CBC serio-comic pilot (making
it hardly independent) that never became a series, it starred Don Francks,
Lisa Langlois and Cree Summer Francks (Don's kid).
SHORT FOR NOTHING
* * 1/2 setting: Ont.
SHOT IN THE FACE *
1/2 setting: CDN.
SHOW ME *
* setting: Ont.
(2004-2005) * *
Rachel Crawford ("Kate Langford"), Adam Harrington ("Ben Chase"), Rachel
Wilson ("Stella"), Jeff Seymour ("David"), Jennie Raymond ("Jody"), Alberta
Watson ("Toni") (1st), Sasha Roiz ("Chazz") (2nd), Steve Boyle ("Gavin"),
with Michelle Duquet ("Simone"), Peter Williams ("Marshall") (1st), Kristin
Booth ("Olivia") (2nd), Balazs Koos ("Michael")....."Adult"
comedy about a straight laced psychologist (Crawford) who is reluctantly
teamed with a cocky primate biologist (Harrington) to write a book about
human sexuality, interviewing people about their sexual escapades, and
then analysing them. But she finds herself having to analyse her own feelings
about the men in her life...including the love/hate dynamic between her
and her co-author. Wilson plays their secretary. Seymour the psychologist's
boyfriend; Raymond her best friend; and Watson her manipulative editor
and Roiz an even sleazier publisher in the second season. Boyle plays "Jody"'s
husband. Duquet cropped up as "Ben"'s ex-wife; Williams an old flame who
(briefly) re-enters "Kate"'s life. Booth was "Ben"'s girlfriend in the
second season and Koos played "Stella"'s boyfriend. The second season inverted
the dynamics a bit, as "Kate" breaks up with "David", and starts playing
the field, while formerly footloose "Ben" starts seeing his next door neighbour,
"Olivia".
Joining the list of Showcase's "edgy" HBO-style series
with profanity and nudity (not involving the regulars), this TV series
is slickly put together with good performances, but has trouble being enough
of any one thing to really score. Essentially a "dramedy" -- which is a
way of saying it's too light to be a drama, but not quite funny enough
to be a comedy -- the characters wander about exchanging badinage like
they think they've stepped out of an old Cary Grant movie...except it's
not nearly as witty as it needs to be. The raunchy sex scenes that are
related (and enacted) for the characters seem a little too much like the
filmmakers had seen Bliss, but wanted to
cut out all the mood and character stuff and get right to the bonking...but
the result seems more puerile than erotic (and seemed toned down for the
second season). And the conceit of having the lead characters constantly
analyse everything seems like a curious narrative choice -- telling us
rather than showing us. And, frankly, if you don't buy into the psychobabble,
you've got a series where everyone seems to think they're a lot more insightful
than they are.
The characters seem inherently shallow, making it hard
to care (the problem with doing a series entirely about sexual relationships
is it renders the characters and their world view rather parochial). Another
problem is that though Harrington is a perfectly competent actor, some
of the rivals for "Kate"'s affections -- Seymour, Williams, even Rob Stewart
who crops up in a couple of episodes -- have more charisma. In other words,
you've got a romantic series where we're (presumably) waiting for the two
leads to get together...and the audience is probably rooting for her to
end up with one of the other beaus in her life instead! (Likewise, Harrington's
scenes with Booth actually had more chemistry than his scenes with
Crawford). Still, for all my negativity, the episodes are sprightly enough
and the half-hour format means you can't accuse it of being tedious or
boring. The acting is good (the supporting cast alone, with the likes of
Seymour, Raymond, and Williams, is noteworthy), and Crawford particularly
shines. To be honest, Crawford (ever since her teen years) has been an
actress who the cynic might argue got her roles as much for her looks as
her thespianic skills. But she's very good here -- arguably delivering
a break through performance. This premiered just a few weeks before the
similarly themed
Naked Josh. Created by Noel Baker,
Paul Jay. Half hour episodes on Showcase. SHOWDOWN AT WILLIAMS CREEK a.k.a. Kootenai
Brown
THE SHOWER
* * 1/2 setting: Ont.
Showstopper * *
1/2 setting: P.Q.
Shutting Down the National Dream, a book
by Greg Stewart, provided the research for the CBC mini-series,
The
Arrow.
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(1999) Jonathan Scarfe, Polly Shannon, Robert
Wisden, Noel Fisher, Brent Stait, Paul Coeur.....Story of professional
hockey player Kennedy (Scarfe), who shocked the sports world by coming
forward with the stories of sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his
junior league coach (Wisden). Competently-done, better-than-average "ripped
from the headlines" CTV movie. Well-acted. Scarfe has always been a promising
young actor, but here he truly makes the leap, fashioning a genuine performance
for the roll, rather than "Jonathan Scarfe playing a hockey player". He
received the Best Actor Gemini. sc: Suzette Couture. dir: Norma Bailey.
- brief male nudity.- 91 min.
(1985) Brenda Robins, Germain Houde, David Calderisi,
Mavor Moore, Marc Strange, Damir Andrei, Eugene Clark, George Buza, Tony
Rosato, Nicholas Rice.....Lawyer Carrie Barr (Robins) is hired to defend
a drug courier (Houde) accused of murder, only to be double crossed by
both the police and mobsters (Calderisi and Andrei). Uninvolving made-for-CBC
TV suspenser has an O.K. cast and some good dialogue, but the story and
characterization never becomes coherent, and the direction is just awkward
-- too obviously inspired by the then-poppular U.S. TV series "Miami Vice".
It served as a fore-runner (albeit with a lot of changes) for the TV series
Street
Legal, with Robins, Rosato and Rice playing the parts of Carrie, Chuck
and Leon. Ten years later, scripter Deverell used this as the source for
his novel Street Legal: The Betrayal (padded with subplots from
some of the early episodes). sc: William Deverell. dir: Peter Yalden-Thomson.
94 min.
(1987) Robyn Stevan, Diana Stevan, Ian Tracey, Christianne
Hirt, Reynald Bouchard.....Teen (R. Stevan) runs away from home and
her abusive stepfather and meets up with some other runaways working as
prostitutes. Given the importance of the topic, the amateurishness of this
film is particularly disappointing. Weak performances (despite some of
the usually good young actors). sc./dir: Christian Bruyere. 77 min.
(1999) (/U.S.) C. Thomas Howell, Roddy Piper, Heidi
von Palleske, Mackenzie Gray, Raymond Serra, Marina Anderson, David Carradine.....In
a future where humans live underground, and rival religious sects sanction
mob-style hits against each other, a troubled church assassin (American
Howell) -- a "shepherd" -- has a change of heart, and ends up fleeing with
his latest assigned target (von Palleske) and her son. Low-budget science
fiction action-thriller has some interesting ideas, both in the reality,
and the characterization (like Gray as Howell's former friend, sent to
hunt him down, and kind of ambivalent about the assignment). But the movie
is confusing: it sort of makes sense, if you pay close attention to cryptic
lines and draw inferences -- and it sort of doesn't. It's poorly structured
and paced, seeming directionless with too many redundant, or repetitive
scenes (as in: "didn't they already have this conversation a couple of
scenes ago?") And, of course, there's lots of brutality and sophomoric
dialogue in place of plot and clever badinage. Like a lot of movies from
the producing team of G. Philip Jackson and Daniel D'Or, the ideas are
O.K., but the execution is a bit of a mess. Howell does a respectable enough
job, though, and there's some interesting casting against type like ex-wrestler
and action movie
hero Piper playing the messianic bad guy, and American
actor Carradine in a bit (and pointless) part as a nut with a puppet. American
B-movie king, Roger Corman, was executive producer. Followed by a sequel.
a.k.a. Cybercity. sc: Nelu Ghiran. dir. Peter Hayman. - partial
female nudity, sexual content, violence, brief male nudity.- 95 min.
(1975) Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allen
Magicovsky, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele.....Internal parasites spread
through the population of a remote apartment complex, causing people to
act libidinously. "Night of the Living Dead" meets "Invasion of the Body
Snatchers" (though not as good as either) spruced up with Cronenberg's
standard themes of sexual and biological horror. Interesting use of a realist
style, but like most of Cronenberg's subsequent films it's cold and clinical,
lacking genuine emotion, characterization, and even much of a story...and
everytime it threatens to get intelligent and provocative, it doesn't.
Impressive f/x. a.k.a. The Parasite Murders and They Came From
Within. sc./dir: David Cronenberg (his first major film). - partial
female nudity, extreme violence.- 87 min.
(1985) Doug Stone, Jackie Samuda, Russell Ferrier,
Karen Cannata, Bill Zagot.....Anthology of three, sometimes amusing,
suspense tales focusing on three brothers (all played by Stone). Shoe-string
budget but surprisingly well-done though the stories tend to go on a bit
too long. Filmed on video. An Emmeritus-CHCH production. sc./dir: Steve
DiMarco.
(1995) (/U.S.) Corey Carrier, Matthew Walker, Gwynyth
Walsh, Caterina Scorsone, David Eisner, Mark Hildreth.....A boy (imported
Carrier) accidentally brings the out-of-control, joke-cracking superhero
(Walker) of his video game to life and decides to use him to get the goods
on a gangster his prosecutor mom (Walsh) has been after. Mildly amusing
hour-long comedy-adventure is O.K. once you get past Walker's obvious similarities
to -- imitation of? -- Jim Carrey (does "The Mask" ring any bells, guys?).
This was a pilot for a never realized series (perhaps it didn't get the
go ahead because that same season the Americans also produced "Deadly Games"
-- a short-lived comedy-adventure series about video game villains
coming to life). sc: Glenn Davis, William Laurin. dir: Michael Schultz.
(1982) William Conrad, Scott Hylands, Linda Sorensen,
Kerrie Keane, Chris Wiggins, Ken Pogue.....True story of American Dr.
R. Adams Cowely (Conrad), a pioneer in shocktrauma research. Well intentioned
made-for-TV drama, but marred by uninspired performances (except for Hylands)
and wooden and melodramatic dialogue. Of interest only for its facts, otherwise
forget it. sc: Stephen Kandel. dir: Eric Till. 100 min.
(1996) Randy Hughson, Alberta Watson, Hardee T. Lineham,
Carl Marotte, Ellen Ray Hennessy, George Buza.....Story of a mildly
retarded shoemaker (Hughson) who begins a tentative relationship with an
enigmatic, "normal" woman (Watson). Gentle, leisurely-paced serio-comic
drama is affecting and well played, benefitting from its "concept" premise
and some nice scenes. But it's a bit thin and though it wants to be quirky,
it's sometimes more uncomfortable (especially with the protagonist's flashes
of temper). And Watson's character could've used more elaboration. In fact,
by the end, the movie seems as though it's as much about the relationship
between Hughson and Lineham (as his business partner) as it is about the
relationship between the man and woman. Prominently billed Marotte has
just a bit part. sc: Jaan Kolk. dir: Colleen Murphy. - sexual content.-
80 min.
SHOOT THE MESSENGER(TV Series)
(1989) Frank Pellegrino, Shannon Lawson, George Touliatos,
Aidan Devine, Barbara Jones.....Iranian-Canadian (Pellegrino) latches
onto a shop-lifter (Lawson) to marry his uncle (Touliatos) so that the
man can stay in the country...and soon wishes he hadn't. Comedy-suspenser
throws in a lot of different ideas, but few of them click into any sort
of coherence. So-so performances. sc: Nicholas Kinsey, Jacques Hardy. dir:
Nicholas Kinsey. - brief female nudity.- 103 min.
(1998) Karen LeBlanc, Tennyson Loeh, Stephanie Jones,
Jonathan Scarfe, Jonathan Higgins, Chris Makepeace, Jennifer Podemski,
Michele Lonsdale Smith, Joanna Bacalsco.....Story of a circle of friends
who work at a local diner while trying to get their film and theatre careers
off the ground. Modestly-budgeted serio-comic ensemble has a personable
cast (LeBlanc, inparticular, assumes centre stage quite nicely, and sings
on a couple of the songs on the soundtrack). It meanders, lagging at times
with characters and situations that aren't that interesting, but
is ultimately O.K. Though the amount of smoking that goes on probably throws
off the statistical curve. sc./dir: Siona Ankrah Camerob. - sexual content;
brief female nudity.- 88 min.
(2001) Bruce Ramsay, Katharine Isabelle, Nicholas
Lea, Benjamin Ratner, John Cassini, Frank Cassini.....Introspective
slacker (Ramsay) finds things take a turn for the weird when his life intersects
with various eccentrics, like a quirky, unstable woman (Isabelle) he's
attracted to, and a psychotic-but-bumbling would be hold up man (Lea).
Comedy has a decent cast and can be amusing and clever at times...but a
little goes a long way, and the "eccentric" characters and "quirky" scenes
quickly become annoying in a meandering, logicless, self-indulgent story
that tries wa-ay too hard to be clever. And like too many Canadian indie
filmmakers, there's a feeling the Hansen brothers would do well to spend
a few months in therapy before starting on their next project, because
too much of the film is just based on characters screaming, and swearing,
and
threatening, and otherwise venting motiveless, inexplicable hostility on
each other. Before too long, you'd be willing to get shot in the face just
so you wouldn't have to watch any more. sc: Jaymie Hansen. dir: David Hansen.
- casual male nudity.- 75 min.
(2004) Michelle Nolden, Katharine Isabelle, Kett Turton,
Gabriel Hogan.....Yuppie (Nolden) picks up a couple of hitchhiking
squeegee kids, only to have them kidnap her, holding her at her own isolated
cottage...with some self-discovery ensuing. Drama-cum-suspense flick is
very well acted from all concerned, and stylish-looking (belying what was
probably a low-budget), and with some well done scenes...but the parts
never quite make a great whole. Not really a thriller, more interested
in being a drama, but as such the suspense scenes don't generate much tension,
but it doesn't really make you care enough about these (mostly damaged)
characters to make it work as a drama. And hostage-kidnapping dramas are
so common (presumably because, if you're on a budget, it requires only
a limited cast and locations) it never really stands out. Gabriel Hogan
has a bit part. sc./dir: Cassandra Nicotaou. 97 min.
(1992) Kate Lynch, Brent Carver, Janet-Laine Green,
Kay Tremblay, Sean Hewitt, Krista Bridges, Joyce Campion, Chas Lawther,
Jed Dixon.....A would-be baby shower turns into uncomfortable self-discovery
for those concerned. Serio-comic pic never hits the mark in characterization
or emotion, but is watchable with some nice performances (especially Hewitt,
Carver, Bridges and Tremblay). But there's a problem in a movie where (a)
everyone's drunk and (b) the more screen time a character has, the more
unlikeable they become. The actors share a co-creation credit. sc: Gail
Harvey, Richard Beattie additional dialogue Jim Gerrard (story Harvey).
dir: Gail Harvey. - sexual content, casual male nudity.- 82 min.
(1985).....The National Theatre School's year
end production is being sabotaged and the student's themselves try to figure
out why and by whom. Likeable hour long drama has some good performances
(particularly the francophone leading lady), though it kind of fizzles
out at the end.