Cinema
The Events Leading Up to My Death
Bill Robertson · 1991
Synopsis
The Snack family lives in Don Mills, in the suburbs of Toronto, around its dog, Busty, whose death will set everything in motion. Angus, the only one of the children to have left, returns for his twenty-first birthday; his sisters, Lindsay and Katy, still live in a house where no one really talks. The father secretly takes dance lessons with a certain Rita, the milkman courts the mother, and the evening descends into disorder, among golf balls, watermelons and garden furniture.
Context
The film was produced by Flat Rock Films, the company of Robertson and Moira Holmes, with the support of the National Film Board, the Ontario film development body and Telefilm Canada. The cast brings together Toronto actors: Rosemary Radcliffe and Peter MacNeill as the parents, John Allore as Angus, Linda Kash and Karen Hines as sisters, and the singer Mary Margaret O'Hara, who plays Rita and composes the music.
Who it is for
Eighty-eight minutes, in English; a satire of the suburban family, with an offbeat humour.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best Canadian screenplay at the Vancouver festival, after a premiere at the Toronto festival.
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