| Going to Kansas City | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Pekka Mandart |
| Screenplay by | Morrie Ruvinsky |
| Story by | Tony MacNabb Pekka Mandart |
| Produced by | Robin Spry Paul E. Painter Alicia Wille Lise Abastado Pamela Mandart |
| Starring | Mikko Nousiainen Melissa Galianos Michael Ironside Susan Almgren |
| Cinematography | Pini Hellstedt |
| Edited by | David R. McLeod |
| Music by | Marty Simon |
Production companies | Mandart Entertainment Telescene Film Group |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista International (Finland) |
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Running time | 98 minutes [1] |
| Countries | Canada Finland |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 17 million mk [2] |
Going to Kansas City is a 1998 Canadian-Finnish drama film directed by Pekka Mandart. The film is about a male exchange student from Finland, who falls in love with an American girl, whose father does not accept the relationship. Shot in Canada, [2] the film is set in the rural town of Canaan that is located 120 miles west of Kansas City. [1]
Source: [1]
The director Pekka Mandart adapted the idea of the story from a magazine article about a love story between a Finnish exchange student and an American girl. [3]
Out of a total budget of 17 million Finnish markka (mk), 11 million mk came from the Canadian production company Telescene. [2] The Finnish Film Foundation granted a three-million mk production support for Going to Kansas City. The total amount of production costs were 14,278,968 mk. [1]
Going to Kansas City had a total of 42,524 admissions in Finnish theatres. [1]
The film was a nominee for the Best Music at the 1999 Jussi Awards [4] and the National Council for Cinema of Finland awarded it a 100,000 mk Quality support for film productions. [1]