82 minutes – Comedy
Language: English
Release date: September 2, 2011
Canadian Distributor: Pacific Northwest Pictures
Carl Bessai’s raucous, poignant feature is the third in his series of collaboratively written comedies on the family following Mothers & Daughters in 2008 and Fathers & Sons in 2010. This time we meet Hollywood star Justin (Cory Monteith) who welcomes his do-gooder brother Rory (Dustin Milligan) to his beach pad. Then there`s Jerry (Benjamin Ratner), a schizophrenic whose constantly changing moods stress out his sister Louise (Gabrielle Miller). Next, the psychologically fragile Maggie (Camille Sullivan) resents her stepsister Nikki (Amanda Crew), a spunky aspiring actress, for a laundry list of reasons. Nevertheless, the two wind up taking a bizarre road trip to L.A. in pursuit of Nikki`s breakthrough role: Fembra the Huntress. Watch for Sarah (Kacey Rohl), a fiery-tempered teen prone to verbally attacking her mom (Gabrielle Rose) who has another daughter (Leena Manro) from a fling years ago at an ashram in India. The story jumps between the four sibling pairs and deals with movie stardom, schizophrenia, artistic ambition, poverty, racial divides and much, much more.
James Brown
Emily Alden
Carl Bessai
Laura Lightbown
Zanne Devine
Kirk D’Amico
Sabrina Pitre
Dan Moxon
Cory Monteith
Dustin Milligan
Amanda Crew
Gabrielle Miller
Benjamin Ratner
Kacey Rohl
Gabrielle Rose
Tom Scholte
Ali Liebert
Camille Sullivan
Leena Manro
Jay Brazeau
Nicola Anderson
Paul Anthony
Frida Betrani
Erin Cebula
Ben Cotton
Chilton Crane
Moneca Delain
Michael Eklund
Teach Grant
Beatrice Ilg
Tyler Labine
Anja Savcic
Manoj Sood
Parm Soor
Vanesa Tomasino
Justin
Rory
Nikki
Louise
Jerry
Sarah
Marion
Henry
Traci
Maggie
Sita
Ringo
Elisabeth
Goon #2
Border Guard
ET Host
Tyler
Mother
Veronica
Director
Goon #1
Natalie
Sean
Molly
Natah
Acting student
Maria
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