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Dave Purcell is ready to call it quits on his marriage and his restaurant, The Auk. Situated in Push Through Cove, Newfoundland, The Auk, like the ill-fated bird for which it was named, has seen better days. All seems lost until Dave’s neighbour Alphonse Murphy proposes a mad yet ingenious scheme to save The Auk: they report the sighting of an extremely rare (believed extinct) duck. This prompts birders from around the world to flock to the area – and subsequently to the restaurant. The Auk takes off at a frenzied pace. To complicate things further, Dave falls for Phonse’s alluring sister, Alice, and Phonse himself has been up to some other tricks, the revelation of which threatens to expose the duck hoax.
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Genie, Gemini and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson has directed numerous and diverse feature films, documentaries and television movies, including Scorn, Such a Long Journey and Gerrie & Louise. Gunnarsson lives in Toronto with his wife and two children. 
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