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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Bruce Lapointe
Script :
Bruce Lapointe
Photography :
Ali Reggab
Editor :
S�bastien Beauregard
Cast :
Matthew Harbour, Frank Fontaine, Chip Chuipka, Robert Crooks, Sheena Larkin, Susie Almgren, Sven Eriksson, Cory Hogan, Aaron Grunfeld, Terence Bowman
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TWO SUMMERS
Eight-year-old Lewis Poppy is using his imagination to stave off boredom and loneliness as he explores his grandfather Herbert's empty apartment while Herbert is at work and his father Michael is away on a business trip. Activities such as building a fort out of cleaning supplies and making faces into a mirror while wearing dentures have become second nature to Lewis, who is often neglected by the very people who should be taking care of him. However, when Lewis' curiosity leads him to discover a mannequin that greatly resembles his deceased mother in Herbert's mannequin manufacturing plant, Lewis' long and difficult journey towards finding true companionship really begins. On this journey Lewis will need to learn how to ballroom dance (through a misunderstanding with Herbert, he believes that he can bring his mother back to life by dancing with the mannequin), and he will need to defy both his grandfather and his father, who have already selected architect as the profession for him. And he will need to resist his older brother Alex, who is undergoing a serious personality crisis and likes to use Lewis as his personal intellectual, emotional and physical punching bag. Lewis will need all these along with patience, determination, hope and, especially, love.
Bruce Lapointe
Born in Montreal in 1974, Bruce Lapointe became interested in film at an early age and began making no-budget films while at John Abbott College. He graduated in communications from the University of Ottawa before enrolling in the New York Film Academy where he made five short films. The last of these, The Green Room (1998), went on to show at several international festivals. TWO SUMMERS marks his directorial debut in features.
August 24, 2002 • 19:00:00 • EATON • E6.24.3 •
August 25, 2002 • 17:00:00 • EATON • E6.25.3 •
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