Hollywood North

Hollywood North

🎞️ Movie 89 min CA
โ˜… 5.4 /10 2003

The camera doesn't lie... its the people behind it.

Former lawyer Bobby Myers recounts his first foray in the Canadian movie business circa 1979, when the then burgeoning Canadian movie industry was going through some growing pains. He wanted his first project as producer to be told by Canadians about issues close to the Canadian heart. As such, he acquired the rights to Lantern Moon, a beloved Canadian novel written by Lindsay May Marshall. He quickly realized that producing a movie in Canada, especially in acquiring financing, required much compromise, most specifically casting a big name Hollywood star in the leading role. The star he signs, Michael Baytes, comes with much baggage. Those compromises lead to many problems between the Canadian vision and the want by some to make the movie more 'American', especially by ultra-patriotic and paranoid Baytes. Through it all, filmmaker Sandy Ryan films it all, good and bad, for a 'making of' documentary. But Sandy has her own agenda as she concurrently films her own lower budget movie called Human Voices.

Cast

Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
Bobby Myers
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek
Paul Linder
Alan Bates
Alan Bates
Michael Baytes
Joe Cobden
Joe Cobden
Howard Atkins
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger
Sandy Ryan
Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke
Peter Casey
John Neville
John Neville
Henry Neville
Lindy Booth
Lindy Booth
Molly
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Fab Filippo
Frankie Candido
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Clare Coulter
Lindsay Marshall
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Terence Gowan
Composer
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Blair Packham
Composer
Barry Stone
Barry Stone
Cinematographer

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