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Canadian film review: Dr. Cabbie

The saga of well-qualified doctors from other countries having trouble being a doctor in Canada is well-known. Dr. Cabbie puts a spin asking what happens when a doctor becomes a cab driver who then works as a doctor from his cab.

The newly licensed doctor Dr. Deepak Veer Chopra (Vinay Virmani) becomes a doctor in India and is excited about practicing in Canada. His mother Nellie Chopra (Indian actor Lillete Dubey) is also coming to Canada, sponsored by his uncle Vijay Sharma (Rizwan Manji).

The good doctor struggles in working in his uncle's restaurant. He then meets a cabbie named Tony (English actor Kunal Nayyar) who introduces him to a whole new world as a cab driver.

The rom-com motive kicks in when Natalie, the woman he met earlier (American actor Adrianne Palicki), ends up in the cab, very pregnant, and about to give birth.

The baby's father Colin (Chris Diamantopoulos) is a jerk only interested in the baby as a political stunt while running to be mayor (presumably of Toronto). Colin will prove to be a thorn in people's sides but the twists and turns in this film don't require any Dramamine.

Dubey does very well as Deepak's mother Nellie. Manji (Schitt's Creek) has a lot of fun as Deepak's uncle Vijay. American actor Mircea Monroe gives life to what could have been a thankless role as Rani, Vijay's much younger wife and former stripper. Stephen McHattie has little to do but plays up his grumpy character with flair.

The best part of this film is the Bollywood type scenes and flair. Natalie is surprised how large Deepak's "small" birthday party happens to be. He says small in Indian terms.

Vinay Virmani, the lead actor, actually came up with the story idea. The screenplay comes from Manu Chopra and Ron Kennell with direction from Jean-François Pouliot. The script is geared toward the rom-com with small holes here and there if you are paying strict attention.

The film is a Canada-India-U.S. co-production. Toronto is on full display with lovely small details such as Tony and Deepak living above Hey, Meatball. The actual restaurant existed on College Street while shooting the 2014 film.

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The presentation is pleasant. Virmani is a lovable lead. Nayyar is having a lot of fun in this film. The female characters have substance. Enough laughter and love in an above-average rom-com film.

Dr. Cabbie is available on CBC Gem in Canada and Amazon Prime Video in the United States.

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Canadian film review: The River of My Dreams

We have had the sense of Gordon Pinsent as an actor, one who shined much later in his career. The River of My Dreams shows us that Pinsent was also a strong writer, painter, and storyteller.

The storytelling element is best described when he talks about emigrating from Newfoundland to the mainland in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. This was before Newfoundland became a part of Canada, which didn't happen until 1949.

The Brigitte Berman documentary shows how Pinsent ended up in Toronto and then Winnipeg. Pinsent's big break was as the lead of Quentin Durgens MP, one of the first hour-long dramas in Canadian television. The show was about a member of Parliament from the riding of Moose Falls, Ontario. Quentin Durgens MP ran from 1965-1969 on CBC.

He also worked in theatre in Stratford where he formed a friendship with Christopher Plummer. Pinsent spent some time in Hollywood where he formed a friendship with Wally Cox and met Marlon Brando.

We learn personal details, like having 2 children with his first wife, whose name we never learn. His second marriage to actor Charmion King lasted 45 years. King died in 2007. Leah, his daughter with King, is a well-known Canadian actor.

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Pinsent's decision to come back to Canada also meant being more involved, such as writing and starring in The Rowdyman (1972). Being in Canada was important to Pinsent.

The film shows him painting as part of the background for Pinsent being in the 2016 documentary. We don't know if he had professional success with the art or more of a hobby.

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The film utilized motion capture technology to tell Pinsent's childhood. The fact that Pinsent himself was responsible for making that work is remarkable. The technology does feel a bit creepy. Even if you dislike the technology, the technology only applies to the recreation of his childhood.

Pinsent was a Canadian pioneer because there weren't too many TV and film options in Canada when he first started. His Hollywood career helped establish what he brought when returning back to Canada. This inspired thousands of Canadian actors about succeeding in the United States as well as in Canada.

The River of My Dreams is a delightful presentation of a long and wonderful life with an inspiring career that lasted decades.

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The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent is available on the Documentary Channel in Canada. 

Canadian film review: The Grizzlie Truth

When we think of departed sports franchises in Canada, most people might think about the Montréal Expos. Kathleen Jayme thinks about her Vancouver Grizzlies.

6 short seasons in Vancouver. The NBA opened its way to Canada in 1995 for Toronto and Vancouver. The Toronto Raptors had their struggles and stuck around. Why not the Vancouver Grizzlies? The Grizzlie Truth is out to find answers.

Basketball was invented by a Canadian (James Naismith). The Toronto Huskies hosted the first Basketball Association of America, frontrunner to the NBA, in 1946.

Jayme is a superfan and talks to other superfans of the Grizzlies. She talks about the popular support for basketball in her home country of Philippines and adapted that in her home in Vancouver.

Stu Jackson gets a lot of blame for why the Grizzlies stay was short. Steve Francis is another villain in his own way. Vancouver drafted Francis but he didn't want to come to Vancouver. The only negative he listed was taxes. The story was remnant of Eric Lindros with Quebec Nordiques, except the Nordiques got a lot more value for Lindros than the Grizzlies got from Houston for Francis.

Jayme got to talk to both of them in a rather surprising fashion. Did they answer every question every fan had? No. They answered quite a few questions.

She touches on the Canadian teams being placed in a huge disadvantage by the NBA. This was not done before or since to other expansion teams, only for the Canadian teams. The new teams were not allowed to make a pick in the top 5 in the regular 1995 NBA draft. The Raptors and Grizzlies were also not allowed to get the top pick for their first 3 seasons, even if they were to win the draft lottery. They were not allowed to use their full salary cap for 2 seasons.

The Raptors and Grizzlies suffered severely from these restrictions. Vince Carter (Raptors) might have been a key force for why the Raptors stayed.

The NBA had played in places such as Buffalo, Cincinnati, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City, and twice in San Diego. Memphis wasn't necessarily a better destination for the Grizzlies as Oklahoma City wasn't for the Seattle SuperSonics. The NBA had the potential for great rivalries with Portland (Trail Blazers), Seattle, and Vancouver but sacrificed that for smaller cities in the U.S. south.

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Unlike people ironically wearing Montréal Expos hats, the Grizzlies haven't been all that visible in the 20+ years since leaving Vancouver. Jayme takes a bold move and goes to Memphis to see if she can love these Grizzlies. Those fanbases that have lost a franchise wouldn't dream of going to the new place.

We won't give away what happened but this bold move might lose some of the people on her side throughout the documentary.

The documentary is a good catharsis for fans who have lost a franchise. Finding answers as to why a franchise disappears is often futile but there is meaning in the search. The NBA didn't have a strong commitment to succeeding in Canada and not a strong sense of where franchises can succeed. Vancouver is a very strong market to support a NBA team but if the league can't see going back to Seattle, there will never be another chance in Vancouver.

There is a generation that knows little to nothing about the Vancouver Grizzlies. If you are a fan of Vancouver, the NBA, or both, The Grizzlie Truth will be a good watching experience.

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The film was screened in Toronto at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in late 2022 with a brief Canadian theatrical run earlier this year. The Grizzlie Truth is available in Canada via Crave.

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Canadian film review: Viking

I saw Continental, a Film Without Guns | Continental, un film sans fusil at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. I saw Tu dors Nicole | You're Sleeping Nicole (2014) from the same writer/director Stephane Lafleur.

My excitement for seeing Viking was mostly because of Lafleur's previous films. The premise was that regular people were going on a space mission but not really. The 5 people selected fit the personalities of those actually on Mars. They don't physically look like the people in space, which is why Steven (Larissa Corriveau) is a woman and Liz (Denis Houle) is a man.

David (Steve Laplante) is John, as in John is the person he is emulating on Earth to help solve potential problems with the actual astronauts. David is a gym teacher looking for more significant purpose in his life. The others on his team are Janet (Fabiola N. Aladin) as the team leader and Gary (Hamza Haq). Gary relies more on English as opposed to French than his other teammates.

They are supposed to stay in character but David gets Steven to admit she's an event planner in the outside world.

They have their own team struggles as they exist to provide help to the other team. David gets a little too into his role and overthrows Janet as the leader.

The team plays these moments as deadpan so the audience has to laugh when the need arises. David's desire for 2 sugar cubes in his coffee while the team insists on one sugar cube may not seem funny but it works in the film.

Lafleur (co-written with Éric K. Boulianne) explores interpersonal relationships and the obsession over chemistry in personal relationships. The film does not break stride, much like the obsession over the project from John/David. An office drama where you live with your co-workers.

Gary is the go along/get along person you've seen on a team. He is happy to be on the side of whomever is in charge. This gets challenged a bit when Gary has to admit to John, who is into Steven, that he is into Steven.

I see quite a few Quebecois films and haven't run into a character that spoke French but struggled in moments. An intriguing small detail.

Laplante played a more gregarious character in Babysitter, meaning he starred in 2 of the 6 nominees for Best Motion Picture at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards. Character actors don't always leap well into being the lead but Laplante knows exactly what to do and is very easy to root for, especially when he screws up.

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Viking is a rather clever film with subtle humour. The story is fresh and highly relatable. The pacing is solid and you are captivated to find out how the film will end.

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Viking received 13 Canadian Screen Awards nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Performance (Laplante), and Best Original Screenplay. Sara Mishara won a Canadian Screen Award for cinematography.

The film received Special Mention for Best Canadian Feature Film. behind To Kill a Tiger at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Viking did make the TIFF Top 10 Canadian films of 2022.

Viking is available on Fandor in the United States.

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Canadian film review: Possessor

Cronenberg yes, but Brandon Cronenberg is behind Possessor, about an assassin who possesses bodies to perform the killings.

Tasya Vos (English actor Andrea Riseborough) is the assassin from within. Tasya's handler, retired assassin Girder (American actor Jennifer Jason Leigh) is concerned that Tasya is too emotionally devoted to her husband Michael and son Ira and not concentrating enough on killing.

Her next assignment involves infiltrating Colin Tate (American actor Christopher Abbott). The battle within takes up the majority of the film.

Character development is not a Cronenberg goal in this film. Science fiction is the driver for the plot and film.

Riseborough works hard to be almost robotic in the role. This sounds insulting but suits the film.

Leigh makes the most of her limited role. She seems to be the only actor having fun with the story.

The beginning of the film is beautiful and gorgeous. The rest of the film doesn't take advantage of the start.

The story feels cold and going through the motions. The idea of a person within a person can be more thoughtful, such as when Penélope Cruz played a man within her body with Victoria Abril in Sin noticias de Dios (2001).

There are enough twists and turns in the film to keep things interesting. Still, an intriguing story shouldn't be surrounded by a meh presentation.

The concept is enough to keep the filmgoer motivated. Just needed a lot more fun and/or interesting.

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Canadians are rather low on the callsheet with Rossif Sutherland in a brief role as Tasya's husband Michael; Kaniehtiio Horn as Reeta; and Gabrielle Graham as Holly Bergman.

Toronto is off in the distance but only an expert or someone who lives there.

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Possessor made the TIFF Top Ten list of Canadian films in 2020. The film is available on Hulu in the United States. There are 2 different versions: we reviewed the uncut version though we have no clue what is missing in the other version.

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Canadian film review: Offside: The Harold Ballard Story

I spent spring break in Toronto in March 1988. On March 19, I (legally) scalped a ticket to see the Toronto Maple Leafs host the New York Rangers on a Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada. My seats weren't great: far back at centre ice. The fans around me were happy to see an American at the game. They shared with me how horrible Harold Ballard was as an owner. Some of them were waiting for Ballard to die.

I knew very little about Ballard and his stint as Toronto Maple Leafs owner. After you see Offside: The Harold Ballard Story, you will understand why Ballard was so hated by the Maple Leafs faithful.

The picture of Ballard is as a con artist: good at marketing, lousy as a human being. He lucked out into being the Maple Leafs owner. If you want to be liked, you would work hard to be a good owner: hire competent people to bring great hockey players to Maple Leafs Gardens.

Harold Ballard didn't want to be liked. And it showed.

He especially didn't like you if you wanted to be paid more. Dave Keon, Roger Neilson, Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, and Rick Vaive.

The details would be too much to believe, if this was a fiction story. Ballard went to jail: supposed to be in jail for 3 years but only served a year. Ballard hired a boat mechanic to be the Maple Leafs trainer.

You start to realize those fans were understating the damage Ballard did to the franchise.

We do see other sides of Ballard. He did make significant charitable contributions, mostly to the Special Olympics. Ballard also bought the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1978.

The Tiger-Cats went to 3 straight Grey Cups from 1984-1986, finally winning the Grey Cup in 1986. That year, Ballard called his own team a bunch of overpaid losers. After the win in the 1986 Eastern Final, Ballard said "You guys may still be overpaid, but after today, no one can call you losers."

The CFL is a lot of things but overpaid isn't one of them. Hamilton businessman David Braley bought the team on February 24, 1989, before Ballard passed away.

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Jason Priestley guides us through a really depressing view of a much hated human being. He humanizes the man as much as one can but your blood pressure will go up watching what happened.

Things are so bad that while Montréal Canadiens fans might be tempted to laugh, the sadness is so prominent that only the most hardened Habs fans could laugh at how bad he was.

The theme we keep hearing throughout the film is that Ballard didn't care about the hockey part. He wanted to make as much money as he could. He did. The family fight over the money is a small part of the documentary but gives some insight.

Spending money could have made him more money. The 1980s were likely to still be dominant by the New York Islanders and the Edmonton Oilers even if the Maple Leafs were better. The lack of success is what was the dominant NHL city has ties to the team's fate since 1993, the last time the team went to the conference finals.

The Toronto Maple Leafs haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1967 and haven't even made the Stanley Cup finals since that fateful year. 

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Offside: The Harold Ballard Story is available on Crave in Canada and Tubi in the United States.

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Canadian film review: Stay the Night

We had hope that Andrea Bang could find a good role after Kim's Convenience. She had a small role in a wonderful Canadian film, Adventures in Public School (2017).

Stay the Night presents Bang, as Grace, a shy, reserved young woman who just passed up for a promotion at work because she is shy and reserved. Her roommate Joni (Humberly González), who is a lot more fun, encourages Grace to go out to a bar. 

On a separate tangent, Carter (Joe Scarpellino) is playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL in Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs. Except Coach Matthews (Graham Abbey) is telling Carter he is being put on waivers. Carter doesn't want to go to Syracuse (minors) and has anxiety over not knowing where he is going.

This has the makings of a bad rom-com in the wrong hands, likely American hands. 2 strangers, each of whom is having a rough time career-wise. Fortunately, Stay the Night is in Canada where the film takes us on a more realistic journey.

Grace reveals something personally awkward. Carter pretends he is in sales. They learn more about each other as the evening progresses. The film is more of a story about 2 people looking out for each other even as they are summing each other up potentially romantically.

The limited time period of the film, fewer than 24 hours, gives the experience a flexibility to delve into the primary characters.

One of the marvelous jokes in the film is the women have no idea who Carter is, while the male characters, including Roshan (Raymond Ablack), Grace's secret crush at work, know Carter. Carter is not a star and doesn't play in Toronto yet he is easily recognizable off the ice.

Many movies shoot in Toronto. Downtown Toronto is truly a co-star in Stay the Night. Writer/director Renuka Jeyapalan has a great sense of space from a fancy hotel to back alleys to the downtown airport. Picking an easy address (27 Crawford) and showing us the cross street of King Street to give a sense of where Grace lives is a wonderful move.

The film is dimly lit, which makes sense given most of the film takes places at night. This is only relevant given how people watch films at home, often with a laptop. You have to listen and try to see in some scenes.

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Andrea Bang is perfectly cast as Grace. You wonder if Jeyapalan wrote the part with Bang in mind. You feel Grace's awkwardness profoundly in the film.

The chemistry between Bang and Scarpellino is not so great in the beginning. Movies shoot out of order so actors have to remember where they are in the plot, going from okay chemistry to better chemistry. Jeyapalan keeps them on point throughout the film.

This is especially important because the film has very few characters with relatively minor roles.

Stay the Night is a film to pick if you want a film with romance but not over the top, where 2 people get to understand each other in a single night. and a film that makes you what to come to the actual Toronto.

Stay the Night has pending nominations for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards. The film is available on Crave in Canada.

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Canadian film review: No Ordinary Man

Billy Tipton was an American jazz musician, a trans jazz musician. Tipton was rather successful but no one knew the secret until Tipton's death.

No Ordinary Man tells the story of Billy Tipton as a stepping point to talking about the life of a trans man, people hiding in broad daylight in a much different time.

Tipton's wife, Kitty, as well as son Billy Jr., both didn't know that Tipton was born a woman until after the musician's death. The couple had 3 adopted sons.

Directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt incorporate people auditioning for the role of Billy Tipton as if they are doing a feature film. This ties in with telling the story of what it's like to be a trans man. Chin-Yee and Amos Mac wrote the documentary.

The film incorporates footage from talk shows in the 1990s when the story first comes to light, since Tipton died in 1989. The discussion of transgender in the early 1990s versus this current decade takes up a good amount of space in the documentary.

No Ordinary Man also explores the Diane Middlebrook book on Tipton's life that the documentary guests see as exploitative. 

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The film doesn't have any visible Canadian content. We tease about this in feature films but this happens quite often in Canadian documentaries. 

A documentary about a jazz musician, regardless of any other factor, should have music from this person. That is surprisingly not much of a factor. Then again, the documentary is about Tipton but not really.

The film spends a lot of time on the impact once Tilton has passed on as well as the health care Tipton might not have received for being transgender in the late 1980s.

The pace of the film helps keep you in the story, well, stories. No Ordinary Man gives the audience a good education on transgender people.

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No Ordinary Man made the 2020 TIFF year-end Canada's Top Ten list. The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. No Ordinary Man has aired in Canada on the Documentary Channel and is available on demand in the United States.

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Canadian film review: Love in the Time of Fentanyl

News will label something as "controversial" such as supervised injection facilities in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The average person might be frightened at the prospect of that type of facility. Love in the Time of Fentanyl shows us what that world is actually like and why it's unusual, but far better in the opioid battle.

The clinic is run by volunteers who are all too familiar with the opioid scene in that area in Vancouver, as in fellow users. The documentary takes us into the people mourning those who have been lost and saving people, so they are still around.

We don't get so close to the action to see actual drug injections but there is an intimacy to watching people do something highly personal that would never been shown on the late news. Safe injection sites have proven to be necessary in the time when opioids can easily be laced with fentanyl.

The film shows us Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) staff members administer Narcan for those who overdose and save their lives. Sometimes, the efforts are too late.

The unofficial narrator is Ronnie aka Narcan Jesus, a gentle giant who is one of the workers at the facility.

Director Colin Askey gives us the intimacy of startling moments without an all-knowing narrator. Sometimes the decisions you don't make are the smartest choices.

The intimacy can be a bit startling but Askey understands we need to see the reality of that world to see the importance of safe injection sites.

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The film reflected the reality in the time of filming. Now those in British Columbia can carry a small amount of drugs, including opioids, without fear of arrest. This includes opioids, which sadly may have fentanyl in them.

Reducing the stigma and the reality of being arrested gives these people a safer environment for themselves and others.

Love in the Time of Fentanyl is a play on the title Love in the Time of Cholera, a 1985 novel Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The book was later turned into a film that was released in 2007.

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We don't pair films together, like wine and food. If you want to learn more about opioids addiction, the Elle-Maija Tailfeathers documentary featuring her mother is an outstanding watch. While this is geared toward opioids in Indigenous communities, its solutions are just as relevant in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States.

Speaking of Tailfeathers, the part of Vancouver in this documentary is very close by where her earlier film, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, was filmed.

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The beauty of documentaries, such as this one, is the way to see what is talked about in the news and show this to an audience who is curious.

Love in the Time of Fentanyl is a great example of showing us a "controversial" world and humanizing the experience. We suggest you watch the film with loved ones and compare notes after watching the film.

Love in the Time of Fentanyl has run in Canada and is available through Independent Lens on PBS. A reminder to our American readers that the PBS version has censored curse words from the documentary. As we have noted, Canadians are far less concerned over the impact of those words than in American society.

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Canadian film review: Percy

Based on a true story. What an amazing, actually true story. Not just the saga of Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan farmer on the wrong side of Monsanto, but the thousands of farmers forced to settle with the large conglomerate.

The story is a true David-Goliath saga (Percy is also known as Percy vs. Goliath). Monsanto would be an exaggerated villain if the company didn't exist.

The problem with the Percy film is that the dialogue is so terrible. Yea, yea, you've said that about other films. The New Romantic dialogue was terrible but not on this level.

Christopher Walken can clearly act though the script making good acting rather difficult. Walken feels like a really poor choice for this character but that feels low on the list of complaints.

Fellow American actors Christina Ricci and Zach Braff feel out of place as well. They, along with Walken, do their best. The scene where Ricci's character orders in a diner is best found in Stereotypes 101. Braff's character has a cane, not known if that is based on the actual lawyer character or an offbeat add to the film.

Roberta Maxwell plays Louise Schmeiser, Percy's wife. Maxwell, one of the few Canadians in the cast, has the most awkward, terrible dialogue in the whole film, which is saying something.

Garfield Lindsay Miller and Hilary Pyror wrote the film. We don't know why the dialogue is this terrible, cringeworthy even.

The relatively good part about Percy? The film doesn't waste time in the beginning with an elaborate open. We pretty much are there at the beginning with the start of the story. The film is a blow-by-blow essence of the actual story. We apparently aren't here for character development, except for when Percy buys a large tractor in the beginning of the film.

Clark Johnson, a fine Canadian actor, has directed a few feature films and a lot of television, directed this film. The direction is okay. Not much you can do with the script. Not sure Charles Officer, who directed Johnson in Nurse.Fighter.Boy, could save this film.

If you can get past the dialogue and if you don't know the story, please watch this film. That may seem contradictory but the story is that important. Glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Roundup, is a disaster to the American and Canadian farming industry. You may know the phrase GMO; you will learn a lot more about it in the film.

Canadian actors Luke Kirby and Adam Beach have brief appearances. They have been in much better projects on both sides of the border.

You feel like Monsanto came in and rewrote the script so people won't know this story. Given what Monsanto did and has done, that sounds rather plausible.

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Your humble narrator would argue that the story of Percy Schmeiser would make an excellent documentary. Explaining the whole Monsanto nightmare requires that level of concentration. Some people who need to know the story might prefer the storytelling motive of a feature film.  

Having large names such as Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, and Zach Braff draws more attention than a documentary. Some of that potential audience might not care that the dialogue is as terrible as it is. Percy is made for this subsection of a subsection. You will learn. Entertained? Not as likely.

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Percy is available on Crave in Canada and on demand in the United States.

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