Movies: Don McKellar

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity....

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an a...

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A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood....

Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura....

A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress....

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged....

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....

A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician....

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is havi...

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry....

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son....

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine....

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event....

At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live ...

The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients....

Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love...

A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis....

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson...

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting....