Cinemanovels Explained

Cinemanovels
Director:Terry Miles
Cinematography:Terry Miles
Distributor:Monterey Media[1]
Runtime: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.[2] [3] 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. [4]

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

Production

Cinemanovels was directed and written by Terry Miles, and produced by Kristine Cofsky, Terry Miles, Lauren Lee Smith.[1] Principal photography primarily takes place in the Gastown neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia.[5]

Reception

The film has a user rating of 5.3 due to mixed critic reviews on IMDb.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Monterey Media Acquires TIFF Dramas 'Half Of A Yellow Sun' & 'Cinemanovels'. 14 January 2014 . deadline.com. 30 January 2014. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140116051449/http://www.deadline.com:80/2014/01/monterey-media-half-of-a-yellow-sun-cinemanovels/ . 16 January 2014 .
  2. Web site: Cinemanovels . 18 August 2013 . TIFF . https://web.archive.org/web/20130825232116/http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/cine . 25 August 2013 . dead .
  3. Web site: Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition . 18 August 2013 . Indiewire. 13 August 2013 .
  4. Web site: What Are the Lowest Grossing Movies Ever? . Basu. Sayak. September 17, 2019. October 28, 2022 . TheCinemaholic.
  5. Web site: When Movies Bring On- and Off-Screen Families Together. 30 January 2014. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20131004054251/http://www.aivf.org:80/magazine/2013/09/TIFF_Cinemanovels_Terry-Miles_Lauren-Lee-Smith_Jennifer-Beals . 4 October 2013 .
  6. Web site: User ratings. IMDb reviews. October 27, 2022.