The Steps (film)

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The Steps
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Film poster
Directed by Andrew Currie
Written by Robyn Harding
Starring Emmanuelle Chriqui
CinematographyRobert Aschmann
Edited by Jorge Weisz
Release dates
  • 14 September 2015 (2015-09-14)(TIFF)
  • 3 June 2016 (2016-06-03)(Canada)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Steps is a 2015 Canadian comedy film directed by Andrew Currie. [1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [2]

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Plot

Jeff (Jason Ritter), a Wall Street power broker going through a slump in business and relationship, and Marla (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a party-loving Princeton graduate, are siblings. Their father Ed (James Brolin) is a wealthy old man who has remarried and moved to Lake Country in Ontario, Canada. The siblings resentfully arrive with their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, an ex-waitress, Sherry (Christine Lahti) and her children: redneck David (Benjamin Arthur) and his wife Tammy (Kate Corbett), failed musician Keith (Steven McCarthy) and academically inclined Sam (Vinay Virmani). Ed and Sherry announce their plans to adopt a child in an attempt to gel the new family together. The movie attempts to portray a comic clash between two cultures and two families which quickly descends into chaos.

Cast

Christine Lahti and Andrew Currie at the Miami Film Festival in 2016 Christine Lahti and Andrew Currie.jpg
Christine Lahti and Andrew Currie at the Miami Film Festival in 2016

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References

  1. "The Steps Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. "The Steps". TIFF. Retrieved 13 November 2015.