CHILDSTAR
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Sitcom icon Taylor Brandon Burns, the world's most famous child actor, is outsourced to Canada. He is to save the world in The First Son, an action-comedy blockbuster scheduled for summer release. Rick Schiller, experimental filmmaker, is assigned as the 12-year-old's driver.
The kid is a monstrous brat, but the job does have its side benefits, liberally provided by Taylor's lonely mom, Suzanne. Rick even seems to be making some progress in establishing trust with the lad, when the pressures of work, family, and fast-approaching adolescence finally become too much for the young star -- Taylor runs away, presumably with some girl. The First Son grinds to a halt. The film's producers and Taylor's agents are thrown into a panic. It's up to Rick to find Taylor before the press catches wind of the situation and all hell breaks loose.
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Don McKellar
Director
Don McKellar is one of Canada's leading director/writer/actors. His writing/acting credits include such acclaimed films as François Girard's The Red Violin (1998) and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), Bruce McDonald's Dance Me Outside (1994), Highway 61 (1991) and Roadkill (1989), Atom Egoyan's Exotica (1994) and The Adjuster (1991), David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999), Patricia Rozema's When Night Is Falling (1995), and Deepa Mehta's Camilla (1994). In 1998, McKellar directed his first feature, Last Night, which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at Cannes. Don McKellar has also worked extensively in television (Twitch City, writer and lead actor) and theatre.
Super 35 mm
98 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
2.35
Original version in English Subtitled in French |
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Producers
Niv Fichman
Daniel Iron
Jennifer Jonas
Director
Don McKellar
Scriptwriters
Don McKellar
Michael Goldbach
Director of Photography
André Turpin
Editor
Reginald Harkema
Sound
Rob Fletcher
Production Designer
John Dondertman
Costume Designer
Debra Hanson
Original music
Christopher Dedrick
Cast
Don McKellar
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mark Rendall
Brendan Fehr
Kristin Adams
Dave Foley
Gil Bellows
Alan Thicke
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Production
Rhombus Media Inc.
99 Spadina Ave.
Suite 600
Toronto Ontario
M5V 3P8
Canada
(416) 971-7856
(416) 971-9647
info@rhombusmedia.com
www.rhombusmedia.com
Distribution – Canada
TVA Films
Joanne Senecal – Head of Marketing
376, av. Victoria
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 2H1
Canada
(514) 284-2525
(514) 985-4461
tvafilms@tvafilms.com
www.tvafilms.com
International distribution
Rhombus International
99 Spadina Ave.
Suite 600
Toronto Ontario
M5V 3P8
Canada
(416) 971-7856
(416) 971-9647
rhombus@rhombusmedia.com
www.rhombusmedia.com
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