Funkytown (2011)

1976. Montreal. Eight people who wanted to see and be seen at the trendiest disco will be juggling fame and anonymity until they will be forced to make sober choices in an era when excess was the norm, and when disco was king.

Director:

Daniel Roby

Writer:

Steve Galluccio

Stars:

Patrick Huard, Justin Chatwin, Paul Doucet

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Patrick Huard	...	Bastien Lavallée
Justin Chatwin	...	Tino DeiFiori
Paul Doucet	...	Jonathan Aaronson
Sarah Mutch	...	Adriana
Raymond Bouchard	...	Gilles
Geneviève Brouillette	...	Mimi
François Létourneau	...	Daniel Lefebvre
Sophie Cadieux	...	Helene
Romina D'Ugo	...	Tina
Jocelyne Zucco	...	Nicole
Janine Theriault	...	Connie Lavallée
Camille Pennell	...	Cynthia Lavallée
Dominic Longo	...	Carlo
Vince Benvenuto	...	Jason
Lina Roessler	...	Sabrina

Storyline

Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.

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Plot Keywords:

discotheque | record producer | bra less | title based on song | female stockinged legs | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

R

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Canada

Language:

French English

Release Date:

4 March 2011 (Canada)

Box Office

Budget:

$7,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Caramel Film, Harold Greenberg Fund, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Producer Simon Trottier comprehensively researched Montreal's disco era of the late 1970s and early 1980s and around 2009 approached director Daniel Roby about making a dramatic feature film about it.

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Goofs

The night panoramic view of 1978 New-York should include the World Trade Center twin towers, which are absent.

User Reviews

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It took awhile to like this film--the first few moments, I was beginning to assume it was just another period piece throwing disco music and wide lapels at us. Instead, this film is what "Last Days of Disco" should have been--a dark film with a message. The hanky moment at one-hour 40 minutes into it. Instead of a single club focus, this film dips into the culture beyond a club and focuses, like SNF, on the conflict disco dance clubbing created between families and when promiscuity and drugs shattered families. It also throws in a current with the business of music and disco--when artists were cheated out of royalties and the transitions some one-hit wonders were able to undergo to sustain themselves and careers while others faded into oblivion and a haze of drugs.

The conflicted character of Tino serves as a perfect representative of those men then, and now, who saw the need to fulfill cultural obligations to raise a family, yet a craving to satisfy their innate, birthright.

FYI: white party in this film refers to participants wearing all-white, not the 1990's circuit parties.