Starbuck

Starbuck is the name of Canada’s most famous bull, the sire of most of the Holsteins in North America. It is also a delightful Canadian comedy about a middle-aged man, David Wozniak [Patrick Huard] who discovers that just about every ounce of sperm he donated to a clinic as a young man ahs produced an army of young people suing the clinic to find him. His curiosity gets the better of him and he gradually seeks out several of his issue with heartwarming and humorous results. It is full of laughs but also some touching encounters that cause David to rethink his life and we watch him transformed slowly and, at times, painfully into a father. The suit is brought by 142 of the 533 children he fathered and in the process of establishing their case discover that they are all brothers and sisters in more than biological ways. It’s a lovely examination of what it might mean to be a father. It has distribution all over the world but not in the states so put it in your Netflix queue in case it never makes it to our ever diminishing art-house cinemas.