Hollywood North Movie Review 2003

Satire on Canadian filmmaking when the government offered tax incentives for films made in Canada. Novice film producer Bobby Meyers (Modine) is trying to raise money to film a classic Canadian novel. But he needs a name actor and winds up with gun-toting paranoid Michael (Bates). Things just get worse--he's stuck with oversexed actress Gillian (Tilly), and numerous script changes turn Bobby's vision into something unrecognizable. And all the while his trials are being documented by director Sandy (Unger).

Distribution

First Look Home Entertainment, 8000 Sunset Blvd., East Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA 90048, Phone: (323)337-1000, Fax: (323)337-1078, Email: info@firstlookmedia.com, URL: http://www.firstlookmedia.com, Remarks: A division of First Look Pictures

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 89 minutes.
Originally from Canadian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Satire & Parody, Toronto, Behind the Scenes, Showbiz Comedies, Period Piece: 1980s

Screenplay

Barry Healey, John Hunter

Cast

Matthew Modine, Alan Bates, Deborah Kara Unger, Jennifer Tilly, Alan Thicke, John Neville, Kim Coates, Clare Coulter, Joe Cobden, Saul Rubinek

Cinematography

Barry Stone

Director

Peter O'Brian

Music

Terence Gowan, Blair Packham