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I loved this film! Easily my favourite fiction flick of this year’s festival…

This is a multi-layered look at how families and relationships can be affected by an automobile “accident” in the white, western world. I’m sure it spoke to me because of the portrayal of so many men, but the lead, Carrie-Anne Moss is fabulous to the end.

Ironically, it is set in Oak Bay, home of the recent murder-suicide of rich folks and this film offers some insight into how things can get so messed up in that world. Carl Bessai and Travis McDonald (and let’s be fair, all their female assistants!) go so much deeper than the shallow portrayals of loneliness and dysfunction; the drunken driving death of a teenage basketball star is the vehicle and the actors really make it real. Although redemption is near, the ending is brutally honest and definitely not from Hollywood!

If I were making the decisions, this film would be mandatory viewing for all drivers…imagine an enjoyable experience that could educate on an emotional level! Let’s hope that after the theatrical release here, it ends up in every new driver’s package and anyone renewing gets a free ticket to a theatre near us…

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