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| Mile End Kicks | |
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| Directed by | Chandler Levack |
| Screenplay by | Chandler Levack |
| Produced by | Matthew Miller Pat Kiely Julie Groleau |
| Starring | Barbie Ferreira Jay Baruchel Devon Bostick Juliette Gariépy Isaiah Lehtinen |
| Cinematography | Jeremy Cox |
| Edited by | Simone Smith |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Entract Films Elevation Pictures |
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Running time | 111 minutes [1] |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Mile End Kicks is a 2025 Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by Chandler Levack. [2] Based in part on Levack's own young adulthood prior to becoming a professional music critic and filmmaker, the film stars Barbie Ferreira as Grace Pine, a young woman who moves to Montreal, Quebec, with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill , but instead becomes romantically involved with ARchi (Devon Bostick) and Chevy (Stanley Simons), two members of an indie rock band, and takes a job as the band's publicist. [3]
The cast also includes Jay Baruchel, Juliette Gariépy, Robert Naylor, Emily Lê, Hasani Freeman, Magi Merlin, and Isaiah Lehtinen.
The film's original screenplay outline, submitted under the working title Anglophone, was announced in 2016 as the winner of a competition for emerging women screenwriters staged by Zapruder Films, the production company of Matthew Miller. [4] The prize was $12,000 and the services of a professional story editor to help develop and complete the full screenplay.
Most of the cast was announced in August 2024, [3] with Baruchel's casting announced toward the end of production. [5]
The film was shot in August and September 2024 in Montreal. [6]
The contemporary Montreal indie rock band Tops wrote two original songs for the soundtrack. [5]
The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on September 4, 2025. [1] [7]
Shelagh Rowan-Legg of Screen Anarchy wrote that "with a vibrant palette, a terrific soundtrack, Mile End Kicks might lose a little bit of steam as it stretches out the ending, but it's a worthy entry to contemporary romcoms, one that acknowledges sex, queerness, money troubles, sexism, how any of us can get caught in the trap of not knowing our own worth, and learning to embrace our love, our anger, and our talent." [8]
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