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This Beautiful City

4.0 85 mins Drama   2007
Resolute Films and Entertainment   3 Legged Dog Films   20/40 Films  
Director(s): Ed Gass-Donnelly

Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.

Casts of This Beautiful City

Aaron Poole

as Johnny

Kristin Booth

as Pretty

Caroline Cave

as Carol

Noam Jenkins

as Harry

Kat Germain

as Zoe

Tony Nappo

as Crack

Jack Murray

as Waiter

Christopher Cordell

as Green Jacket Jock

Kevin Hanchard

as Father

Stuart Hughes

as Peter

Marvin Ishmael

as Bill

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