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VICTORIA DAY
A feature length film. Produced by Holm & McNamara, written and directed by David Bezmozgis.
It is May 1988 in Toronto. The school year is coming
to a close. The Victoria Day long weekend heralds the
beginning of summer. In Boston, Wayne Gretzky's
dynastic Edmonton Oilers are playing in the Stanley Cup
Finals. Best of all, Bob Dylan is coming to town.
Ben Spektor, 16, attends the concert with his two closest
friends, Sammy and Noah. Though the year is 1988,
they exist as if in a time warp, idolizing the music and
culture of the 1960s. Outside the concert, Ben
sees what looks like a routine exchange: two teenagers
buying
drugs. In a way he could never have predicted, the
consequences of this drug deal will alter the course of
his summer and, quite possibly, the rest of his life. This
one event, barely significant at the time, initiates Ben
into love, as well as death, and forces him to confront
his conscience, his friends, and his family. Over
the span of one week, seemingly disparate forces converge
on him -- the search for a missing boy, his romance with
the boy's sister, the Stanley Cup finals, the fortunes
of his own hockey team, and a peculiar Vietnam reenactment
with Victoria Day firecrackers. These events conspire
to displace the certainty of childhood with the disorientation
of adulthood.
- Developed by The Harold Greenberg Fund and Telefilm.
- Status: in Post Production
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