| Cinemanovels | |
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| Directed by | Terry Miles |
| Written by | Terry Miles |
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| Cinematography | Terry Miles |
| Distributed by | Monterey Media |
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| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Cinemanovels is a 2013 Canadian comedy film written and directed by Terry Miles. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film holds the record for Canada's second lowest opening weekend box office gross of 2013, earning just $298, opening to just a dozen theatres.
Plot
Grace (Lauren Lee Smith) is living the spoiled inheritance lifestyle of her famous late Quebecois film director father in the swanky Gastown district of Vancouver albeit extremely bored and dissatisfied with her life. By chance, she is approached by film student Adam (Kett Turton) of her loft building who is extremely influenced by her father's cinematic works. She permits him access to remaster and release her father's cinematic archives for professor lectures, and begins a relationship with him, granting him sexual favors in gratitude for reviving her career, even though she already has her husband, Ben (Ben Cotton). Her friend Clementine (Jennifer Beals), has a secret criminally inclined double life and this eventually intertwines with Grace's double life as well.
Cast
- Lauren Lee Smith as Grace
- Jennifer Beals as Clementine
- Ben Cotton as Ben
- Kett Turton as Adam
- Katharine Isabelle as Charlotte
- Sarah Grey as Julia
Production
Cinemanovels was directed and written by Terry Miles, and produced by Kristine Cofsky, Terry Miles, Lauren Lee Smith. Principal photography primarily takes place in the Gastown neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Reception
The film has a user rating of 5.3 due to mixed critic reviews on IMDb. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on four critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
References
- ^ "Monterey Media Acquires TIFF Dramas 'Half Of A Yellow Sun' & 'Cinemanovels'". Deadline Hollywood. 14 January 2014. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- "Cinemanovels". TIFF. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- Basu, Sayak (28 October 2022). "What Are the Lowest Grossing Movies Ever?". TheCinemaholic. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- "When Movies Bring On- and Off-Screen Families Together". Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- "User ratings". IMDb reviews. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- "Cinemanovels". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
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