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Eighteen (2004/I)

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User Rating: 6.6/10 (250 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Richard Bell
Writer:
Richard Bell (written by)
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
A street kid. A soldier. A present that repeats the past.
Plot:
Pip is a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
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Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Paul Anthony ... Pip

Brendan Fletcher ... Jason Anders
Clarence Sponagle ... Clark

Mark Hildreth ... Macauley

Carly Pope ... Jenny

David Beazely ... Jeff

Thea Gill ... Hannah

Alan Cumming ... Father Chris

Ian McKellen ... Jason Anders (voice)

Serge Houde ... Earl

Adrien Dorval ... Don (as P. Adrien Dorval)

Gabrielle Rose ... Wendy
Paul Dzenkiw ... Daniel

Ryan McDonell ... Derek

Kevan Ohtsji ... Roger
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Additional Details

Runtime:
101 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Canada:14A (Ontario)
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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
OK but not great, 4 August 2006
5/10
Author: artzau from Sacramento, CA

It's nice to see a film from Canada with a Canadian focus. We Yanks tend to be a bit parochial in that if it ain't American, it can't be much good-- after all, we invented movies and hey, where's Hollywood anyway? This little film which gives us several peeks into Canadian middle class which isn't much of a departure from what some American Indie would have made about marginalized people, e.g., street people, hustling gay men, etc. The story line which begins confusedly and pops back and forth from flashbacks to back-story, then fuses the two in a very confounding manner to bring the viewer back to the present and then a quick cut to the future at the end. This is a morality tale of redemption, suffering and quasi-resurrection, melded into a young man's odyssey seeking virtue in an amoral world. The acting is generally weak: Pip the main character is completely unconvincing as an innocent youth wandering lost because of self-loathing and self-betrayal. He comes off as a spoiled brat who loathes anything smacking of responsibility more than he abominates his own self-perceived and self-condemned failings; Paul Anthony neither looks nor acts 18 in this role. His counterpart in the back story, Brandan Fletcher is quite convincing of the 18 year old Jason, caught in the throes of WW1, helping a dying comrade and having to kill or be killed. Indeed, the contrast is notable and highlights Anthony's not too attempts at misplaced and miscounted youth. Carly Pope is charming as the girl-friend albeit her love interest in a young spoiled homeless kid does not come across very well. David Beazley and Clarence Sponagle are fine in their roles of young gay men attempting a relationship and Serge Houde as Pip's hypocritical beast of a father and the ever brilliant Alan Cummings as the gay Priest gives the story the necessary added texture of complexity, duplicity and ambiguity. All in all, a decent film that could have admittedly better but then too, it could have been disastrously worse.

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