109 minutes – Drama
Festival release date: November 30, 2017 -Whistler Film Festival
Release date: June 8, 2018 – Toronto
June 13, 2018 – Victoria
June 15, 2018 – Regina
June 18, 2018 – Sudbury
June 25, 2018 – Peterborough
July 20, 2018 – Vancouver
Production company: Whiskaye Films, Sociable Films
Canadian distributor: Level Film

Based on the 2011 play by Sean Minogue, Prodigals is about a young man named Wesley (David Alpay) who has returned to his hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario after a five-year absence, to testify at a friend’s murder trial. The suspect’s sister and Wesley’s friend Nina (Kaniehtiio Horn) asks him to defend her brother in court, believing his background as a big-time lawyer will help them win the case. But Wesley is harboring a dark secret – he dropped out of law school and never became a lawyer. When the defendant’s lawyer mistakes Wesley for a qualified lawyer, he’s hired on to help win the case and accepts, believing he can help without actually doing anything illegal.