Patch Town

Shades of Juenet & Caro with a dash of Terry Gilliam and seasoned with essence of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Patch Town enters the pantheon of unlikely musicals based on unlikely premises.  Grown-up toys [literally, toys that have grown up] must battle a dystopian corporation run by a very unhappy and dastardly scientist in order to regain their past as loved members of family and society. A good cast of unknowns [I did recognize one bit part] do well expanding an award-winning short to a feature film.  This is another of the many Canadian films featured at this years Fest.

The Grand Seduction

If you enjoyed Local Hero, Waking Ned Devine and The Englishman Who Went up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain you will probably love this little picture.  Brendan Gleeson plays a scheming fisherman in a dying little harbor in Newfoundland.  They need a town doctor in residence in order to secure the location of a new factory and hundreds of much needed jobs.  He enlists the entire 120 residents of Tickle Cove to seduce a young doctor into making it his home.  With few resources but great community they succeed…. sort of.