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Written by: Marcia Kash, Douglas E. Hughes
Genre: Comedy
Length: 120 min.
In Too Many Cooks, it’s 1932 in Niagara Falls, Canada, where the rum-running business is at its peak. In the aftermath of the Crash, Irving Bubbalowe and his daughter Honey have risked everything they have to open a new gourmet restaurant. When their star, the renowned singing chef Francois LaPlouffe,...
Written by: Ban̦uta Rubess
Genre: Musical/Opera
Length: 150 min.
“Beatnik meets ethnic in Toronto, 1959. Clement Hambourg breaks ranks with his family and starts the first jazz club in the city. The House of Hambourg in Yorkville is his pride and joy. One night, Austra Mednis clambers through the window, a runaway from her refugee past. Clem gives her...
Written by: Tara Goldstein
Genre: Adaptation, Drama
Length: 70 min.
“Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, this historical drama unfolds in the summer of 1933, a summer of intense heat, widespread unemployment, swastika badges in Toronto’s parks and beaches, and the Christie Pits riot. Jessica and Larry are living in the Beaches in the home they bought with the...
Written by: Lisa Codrington
Genre: Black Theatre, Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“In Up the Garden Path, a young Barbadian seamstress is coerced into posing as her half-brother to go to the Niagara region in Ontario and work on a vineyard. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a Black Loyalist soldier who wants to...
Written by: Joanna McClelland Glass
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
An examination of the decline and fall of Cam MacMillan, a prairie salesman who considers himself a Canadian “aristocrat”. When he is chosen as the scapegoat during a World War II gas-ration scandal, he is unable to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. We watch the effects of...
Written by: Dina Morrone
Genre: Comedy
Length: 110 min.
“The day a loose moose wanders into town, it rattles four generations of an Italian/Canadian immigrant family into the realization that they are not the only ones that are displaced and confused. For those of you not familiar with a moose, it’s a large brown-haired animal with antlers that weighs...