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Canada 2001 / 35 mm / Color / 92 min. | |||
Derek Ridley is a father with a remarkable capacity to love, but whose emotional fragility makes him feel unworthy of love himself. When his marriage breaks down, he begins making reckless attempts to get his family back, eventually hatching a desperate plan to take his young son Will to the Rocky Mountains where he believes a wilderness utopia will be found. Initially the adventure represents an exciting and cathartic sense of freedom for father and son, but as Will's need for his mother continues to grow, Derek's attempts to regain love and family become increasingly desperate. As Will's recognition of his father's delusion begins to surface, Derek soon finds himself facing an adversary he never expected, and Will finds himself a very small boy on a very adult journey. |
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| Script: Michael Melski. Phot.: Robert Aschmann. Ed.: Reginald Harkema. Mus.: Don MacDonald. Cast: Michael Riley, Connor Widdows, Sabrina Grdevich. Prod.: Blake Corbet, Trent Carlson, Anagram Pictures Inc., 380 West 8th Avenue, Suite 200, Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 3X2 (Canada), t�l.: (604) 730-9021, fax: (604) 730-9042, e-mail: [email protected]. | |||
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Andrew Currie Canadian director Andrew Currie has written and directed several short films, including Persistence of Memory, and The Sudden Walk. In 1997, after graduating from the Canadian Film Centre's directors' program, he won the Telefilm Canada Award for best director at the Vancouver Festival for his short Night of the Living (1997). He was nominated for a Gemini Award for his direction of Twisteeria, a half-hour children's comedy he made for the YTV channel. MILE ZERO is his first feature. |