I Like Movies
- 2022
- 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
2.9K
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Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 12 nominations
Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll
- Yuppie Man
- (as Rodrigo Stoll)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA majority of the video rental store set was obtained from an abandoned Blockbuster that had been sitting vacant for around a decade in Owen Sound, Ontario. Asbestos in the store forced the movie crew to find a different building to be the set location. They found an empty thrift shop in Ajax, Ontario and built it into the "Sequels Video" store.
- GoofsA DVD of the film Starry Eyes can be seen in a shot. The film takes place in 2002, even though Starry Eyes was released in 2014.
- Quotes
Lawrence Kweller: So yeah, it was just like kind of a misunderstanding actually, just a bit of a miscommunication.
- SoundtracksIII. Saraband
Written by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Daniel Hope, Lorenza Borrani, Lucy Gould, Stewart Eaton, William Conway, Enno Senft, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Stefan Maass and Stefan Rath
Featured review
It is 2003 in Burlington, a western suburb-city of Toronto. High school senior Lawrence is enthralled by movies, and insists on only applying to NYU's film program for post-secondary studies. This is despite the $90,000 U. S. annual cost, not affordable by his single mother on a secretary's salary. So he gets employment in a video store, a develops a relationship with its female manager.
Socially inept, he is tightly bound to his best friend Matt, with whom the share a fondness for Saturday Night Live, but they break up as Matt finds a girl friend / girlfriend film associate, and is tired of Lawrence's undisciplined, self-indulgent approach to film-making, as well as his possessiveness (shades of Close (2022)). Along his journey for that year, Lawrence has to grow up.
I saw this after The Fabelmans, and actually prefer this, a more concentrated film, without the playing out of the family drama. I liked the teenage lead here as well as the one in The Fabelmans. I also liked that fact that it was unabashedly Canadian.
Socially inept, he is tightly bound to his best friend Matt, with whom the share a fondness for Saturday Night Live, but they break up as Matt finds a girl friend / girlfriend film associate, and is tired of Lawrence's undisciplined, self-indulgent approach to film-making, as well as his possessiveness (shades of Close (2022)). Along his journey for that year, Lawrence has to grow up.
I saw this after The Fabelmans, and actually prefer this, a more concentrated film, without the playing out of the family drama. I liked the teenage lead here as well as the one in The Fabelmans. I also liked that fact that it was unabashedly Canadian.
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $950
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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