All the Wrong Reasons (film)

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All the Wrong Reasons
Directed byGia Milani
Written byGia Milani
Produced byPhyllis Laing
Gia Milani
Tony Whalen
Starring Karine Vanasse
Cory Monteith
Kevin Zegers
Emily Hampshire
Cinematography Stéphanie Weber Biron
Edited byThorben Bieger
Music by Ari Posner
Production
companies
Strong Arm Pictures
Buffalo Gal Pictures
Shore Road Pictures
Distributed byPacific Northwest Pictures
Release date
  • 8 September 2013 (2013-09-08)(TIFF)
[1]
Running time
119 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

All the Wrong Reasons is a 2013 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gia Milani. It stars Karine Vanasse, Cory Monteith, Kevin Zegers and Emily Hampshire. The film was released at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Plot

The film is set in the Fairfax Department store, a big-box outlet in which Kate Ascher (Vanasse) works as a security guard while her husband James (Monteith) is the store's manager. Kate is unable to touch other people - including her husband - or even have them near her due to the traumatic stress of seeing her sister commit suicide. After James tries unsuccessfully to bring Kate out of her isolation, he pursues intimacy from one of the store's cashiers, Nicole (Hampshire).

Simon Brunson (Zegers) joins the store staff. He faces his own stresses after being injured in his former job as a firefighter. His efforts to deal with his situation inspires Kate to lash out against her cheating husband, ruin his career and cost Nicole custody of her son, which allows Kate to begin her recovery of a normal life with Simon.

Cast

Production

Shooting was conducted in Halifax during mid-2012 and concluded on 15 August 2012. [2] The film was produced by Shore Road Pictures (Gia Milani & Tony Whalen) and Buffalo Gal Pictures (Phyllis Laing). [3]

Funding for the film was provided by Telefilm Canada, the Province of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia Tax Credits, Pacific Northwest Pictures and Myriad Pictures. [4] [5] It is slated to air on The Movie Network and Movie Central in 2014. [2] [ needs update ] Pacific Northwest Pictures is the Canadian distributor while international sales is handled by Myriad Pictures. [6] [7]

Awards and nominations

The film won the Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. [8]

The film won the Viewer's Choice Award at the Silver Wave Film Festival [9]

Denis Theriault was nominated by ACTRA Maritimes for Outstanding Male Performance Feature Film, Movie of the Week, Television, or web-series for his role as Radley Weil in All the Wrong Reasons. [10]

The screenplay won the Slamdance Film Festival's 2009 Script Accessible Award as part of that festival's Feature Screenplay Competition. [11]

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References

  1. "All the Wrong Reasons". Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  2. 1 2 Cooke, Stephen (11 August 2012). "Halifax offers all the right reasons". The Chronicle Herald. Halifax. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  3. Ng See Quan, Danielle (30 July 2012). "All the Wrong Reasons in production in Halifax". Playback. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  4. Vlessing, Etan (9 August 2012). "Cory Monteith living out the dream in Canadian film role". Playback. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  5. "Telefilm Canada supports the production of six English-language feature-film projects for a total investment of $6.4 million". Telefilm Canada. 25 September 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  6. Vlessing, Etan (9 August 2012). "'Glee's' Cory Monteith on Real-Life Role in Canadian Indie Film". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  7. Vlessing, Etan (30 July 2012). "Glee's Cory Monteith and Kevin Zegers in Canadian indie 'All the Wrong Reasons'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  8. "Toronto: Cory Monteith's 'All the Wrong Reasons' Wins Discovery Award". The Hollywood Reporter. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  9. "The 2013 Silver Wave Film Festival Viewers Choice Award Winner is..Gia Milani and Tony Whalen's Feature Film All the Wrong Reasons!". Silver Wave Film Festival Facebook Page. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  10. "ACTRA Maritimes Announces Nominees". ACTRA Maritimes Website. 2 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  11. "Shore Road runs to Park City". Playback. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2013.