125 Rooms of Comfort

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125 Rooms of Comfort
Directed by Patrick Loubert
Written byPatrick Loubert
Victor Coleman
Produced by Don Haig
StarringTim Henry
Jackie Burroughs
Robert A. Silverman
CinematographyHenri Filks
Edited byThomas Berner
Release date
  • November 7, 1974 (1974-11-07)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

125 Rooms of Comfort is a 1974 Canadian drama film directed by Patrick Loubert. [1]

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The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay former musician who has been involuntarily institutionalized in an asylum by his family since showing up to his father's funeral in drag. When his father's will leaves him possession of a smalltown hotel in St. Thomas, Ontario, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to American real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans. [2]

Cast

Critical response

Robert Fothergill of Cinema Canada wrote that the film featured strong cinematography and editing, but that its script lacked a coherent narrative centre, and ultimately analyzed the film as a mangled metaphor for Canadian nationalism. [3]

Awards

The film was a nominee for Best Feature Film at the 26th Canadian Film Awards in 1975, but did not win. [4]

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References

  1. Waugh, Thomas, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Carleton University Press, 2006. ISBN   978-0773530690. pp. 420-421.
  2. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN   1-894073-21-5. p. 161.
  3. Robert Fothergill, "125 Rooms of Comfort: A long review of a film you'll probably never get to see". Cinema Canada , No. 18 (March/April 1975). pp. 58-59.
  4. "Competing as Canada's best". The Globe and Mail , October 9, 1975.