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Kitchen Party | |
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Directed by | Gary Burns |
Produced by | Christine Haebler John Hazlett |
Written by | Gary Burns |
Starring | Scott Speedman Laura Harris Gillian Barber |
Music by | Schaun Tozer |
Cinematography | Robert Aschmann |
Edited by | Reginald Harkema |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Language | English |
Kitchen Party is a 1997 film written and directed by Gary Burns ( The Suburbanators ). The movie cast a number of then-unknown young Canadian actors, including Scott Speedman, Laura Harris, and Tygh Runyan, and was released on September 8, 1997 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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In the bored suburban atmosphere of a Canadian city, Scott (Scott Speedman) decides to throw a celebratory get-together with friends in his parents' home. Unfortunately, there's a catch: Scott's parents happen to be particularly anal about the direction the carpet fibers lay and the distance from doily to table-edge. This means that the only part of the house that is safe, that is, the only part of the house with no carpeting and therefore no potential mess, is the tiled kitchen.
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