| True Confections | |
| Director: | Gail Singer |
| Based On: | True Confections by Sondra Gotlieb |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
True Confections is a 1991 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gail Singer.[1] Based on Sondra Gotlieb's Stephen Leacock Award-winning novel True Confections, it stars Leslie Hope as Verna Miller, a young Jewish woman growing up in the 1950s who rebels against the rigid gender role assigned to women in her era due to her ahead-of-her-time sensibilities and life aspirations.[2]
Rather than a strict adaptation of Gotlieb's novel, Singer added some material to the screenplay that was more reflective of her own experiences in that era.[3]
The film's cast also includes Judah Katz, Chandra West, Jeff Pustil, Jill Riley, Stewart Bick and Daniel Kash.[4]
The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1991, and was screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals in September.[5] Singer's documentary film Wisecracks was also screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals, making her the first filmmaker in the festival's history to have both a documentary and a narrative fiction film screened at the festival in the same year.[6]
The film garnered three Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992:[7]
Gail Singer
Andris Hausmanis
Alisa Alexander