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2000
85 Minutes
Feature Film
Unknown Source

Starring Robin Dunne, Stephanie Zimbalist, Corbin Bernsen, and Michael Ironside. This is a compelling, edgy coming-of-age story that offers an engrossing and entertaining look at family politics at their direst. Fifteen-year-old Jeremy’s world is coming apart. Mom has moved to Windsor, Ontario, and Dad has stayed in Detroit with his eldest son. Caught in the middle of an ugly custody battle, Jeremy moves between the warring parents, loving them both. Jeremy is a young man whom everyone wants a piece of: his mother wants him for company and revenge, his girlfriend wants him to be the man in her life, his coach wants him to help the track team win, his brother wants him to get lost, and his father is absolutely dead set on having him return home... but for reasons that remain intriguingly suspect. Jeremy has to overcome his small size and asthmatic lungs as he tries out for the track and field team and in the end it looks as though the father might actually have Jeremy's best interests at heart; but that possibility won't bear the weight of the Can-Am games in which Jeremy and his brother find themselves both competing. Filmed in Regina, Saskatchewan and Windsor, Ontario Canada. Directed by Jeff Beesley and written by Larry Mollin. The original version was done in English and it was also dubbed in French. Made possible by Heartland Motion Pictures with participation of The Movie Network. Special thanks were offered to the Wheat City Kinsmen Track Club, Regina Athletic Track Club, and the Harriers Track Club for their assistance with this production.


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