Hamster Cage and Unnatural & Accidental (2006) – Northernstars.ca Hamster Cage, and Unnatural & Accidental (2006)
Reviews by Wyndham Wise

It’s always a bad sign when Canadian films are released at the end of the year. It means that the distributor is in effect “dumping” them to compete with the American blockbusters released in time for the holiday season or Oscar consideration. Two such films open in Toronto this weekend, Larry Kent’s The Hamster Cage and Carl Bessai’s Unnatural and Accidental. Apart from the lack of faith shown by their respective distributors, the two have other traits in common. Both are from the West Coast and both are low-budget art-house style films striving to say something “important” about the state of the human condition with big ideas, which sadly fall short of the mark.