Tyler tries to discover the father she never got the chance to meet in this stirring psycho-sexual ghost story, exploring themes of gender and sexual identity.
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| Sarah Gadon | ... | Tyler Kent | |
| Stephen Park | ... | Don | |
| Rosanna Arquette | ... | Joan Kent | |
| Rachael Crawford | ... | Vanessa Tate | |
| Marie Brassard | ... | Claudia Lynx | |
| Raoul Max Trujillo | ... | Octavio Soler (as Raoul Trujillo) | |
| Ho Chow | ... | Benny Ho | |
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Dimitris Kitsos | ... | Apostolis Zachariou |
| Frank Moore | ... | Jack | |
| Billy Otis | ... | Bartender | |
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Alexandra Tigchellar | ... | Sasha Von Bon Bon (as Alex Tigchellar) |
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Randy Gagne & Still Boys | ... | Randy Gagne & Still Boys |
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Stephen Jackman-Torkoff | ... | Marco |
| Marni Van Dyk | ... | Chrissie Robinson | |
| Gage Graham-Arbuthnot | ... | Eddy Robinson | |
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Young adult Tyler Kent lives with her selfish mother, Joan Kent. While Tyler has just been laid off from her bookstore clerk job in the store being shut down, Joan runs a scam collecting disability while she isn't really disabled, the money especially important when the child support payments from her ex-husband Octavio Soler, a Mexican immigrant, ran out. They divorced when Tyler was an infant, Tyler never having seen or heard from her father since, he who she doesn't remember at all. Joan believes they've hit the jackpot when they learn that Octavio has passed away, he having left everything to Tyler. Not wanting anything from a man she felt abandoned them, Tyler turns everything over to Joan. But when Tyler learns that Joan has hid certain keys aspects of Octavio from her all these years in her own selfishness, Tyler decides to run away to live at least for the time being in Octavio's rundown and cluttered apartment in the city, partly to get away from her mother, but more to learn... Written by Huggo
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Written by Gordon Deppe
Performed by Spoons
[Played when Joan and Tyler drink champagne]
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I liked it a lot but I also identify with the plight of the lead to try and figure out who she is on the inside and explore her sexuality. I think some of the low reviews are because the reviewers just 'don't get' the point of this movie.