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DOUBLE HAPPINESS(1995) Director/Screenwriter: Mina Shum. Starring: Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Alannah Ong, Callum Keith Rennie. 87 minutes. PG

Jade Li (Oh), a __________ Chinese Canadian, wants to become

a(n) ___________ without upsetting her extremely ____________

____________. It’s a ___________ that Jade is finding___________

to achieve. Talking in English, _____________ western clothes and going out with ___________ guys, Jade

leads a __________ life when she leaves her ___________-but-___________ domestic scene each day. Things

come to a __________ when _________(Rennie), a white Canadian __________ student, insists on turning

their ____________ into something more ___________. It’s a relationship that Jade’s _____________ would

___________. What should she do?

Sandra Oh won the _____________ Award for her performance. The film also won awards in____________,

____________ and ____________.

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THE F WORD(2013) Director: Michael Dowse. Screenwriter: Elan Mastai. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Rafe Spall. 102 minutes. 14A

Wallace (Radcliffe) is a __________ school dropout who’s been

__________ by __________relationships. Just when all his friends,

and even his ___________ roommate Allan (Driver), seem to be

finding ___________, Wallace decides to put romance on hold. Of course, that’s when he meets Chantry (Kazan), a

____________ who lives with her longtime ____________, Ben (Spall). The dreaded “F word” in this _____________

and hilarious______________ is “_______________.” Wallace and Chantry form an instant _____________ , but are

both committed to keeping things ____________, which might prove to be more______________ than either one of

them imagined.

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Based on an ancient Inuit legend, Atanarjuat is a(n) ___________

tale of _____________, _____________ and ______________.

The ______________ Atuat (Ivalu) has been promised to the

_____________ Oki (Arnatsiaq), the son of the tribe’s _____________. However, she loves the ____________

Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq), a fast runner and excellent ___________. When Atanarjuat is forced to ____________ the

____________ Oki for Atuat’s _____________, the events that follow determine not only his ___________, but that

of his ______________.

Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including eight Genies and the _____________ d’Or at the _______ Cannes Film Festival.

ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER(2001) Director: Zacharias Kunuk. Screenwriter: Paul Apak Angilirq. Starring: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk. 161 minutes. AA (Inuktitut with English subtitles)

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BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD(2002) Director/Screenwriter: Deepa Mehta. Starring: Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray, Rishma Malik, Moushumi Chatterjee. 105 minutes. PG

Set in _____________ and its _____________ suburbs, Bollywood/

Hollywood __________ subverts the ___________ conventions of

both cultures. Rahul (Khanna), a ___________ South Asian-Canadian

___________, is pressured by his ____________ (Chatterjee) and _____________ to find a ____________ Hindu girl

to accompany him to the ____________ wedding ceremony of his sister (Malik).

As a joking way of accommodating them, he hires Sue (Ray), a ___________ escort girl, to pretend to be his fiancée.

Naturally, the two fall in __________, and just as naturally, ___________ ensue. Incorporating the ___________

stylistic excesses of Bollywood — the ___________, the choreography and the music — Mehta allows Indian culture

and societal attitudes to play out in _____________________.

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GINGER SNAPS(2000) Director: John Fawcett. Screenwriter: Karen Walton. Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers. 108 minutes. R

In this Canadian cult ____________, a ____________ woman’s

adolescent transformation gets ___________ than expected.

Teenaged sisters Ginger (Isabelle) and Brigitte (Perkins) live in Bailey

Downs, a ___________town that has been hit by a ____________ run of ___________ attacks. On the night of

Ginger’s first ____________ she is _____________ by a monstrous creature, setting her on the path to a much more

___________ ____________ than mere puberty held in store!

With biting satire on the ____________ story, Ginger Snaps is a cult classic, _________ with___________, screams

and frightfully fun ___________. Nominated for _______ awards, the film went on to spawn two ______________.

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A ___________ smash, Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a __________ ___________

about _______ policemen who are thrown together to solve a crime

committed on the _____________ between Quebec and Ontario.

__________ (Feore) and ___________ (Huard) couldn’t be more different: one is a ____________ -speaker from

Toronto, the other is a ___________ -speaker from Montreal; one never deviates from ______________ procedure,

the other is a _______________ who refuses to ______________ by the rules. The detectives soon learn that

if they are to solve this ____________ crime, which is linked to the world of ___________, they need to stop

_____________ and work together. With ______________ performances from both ____________, Bon Cop, Bad Cop

is a genuinely clever take on the ______________ genre that will keep you ______________ throughout.(verb ending in -ing)(film genre)

BON COP, BAD COP(2006) Director: Érik Canuel. Screenwriters: Leila Basen, Alex Epstein, Patrick Huard, Kevin Tierney. Starring: Colm Feore, Patrick Huard. 116 minutes. 14A (Bilingual: French and English)

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A __________ and __________ English-language adaptation of the

2003 Quebecois __________La grande séduction, this film tells the tale

of a _____________ ______________ village in ______________ that

must secure a new ______________ in order to keep the community alive. When city ____________ Paul Lewis

(Kitsch) arrives for a court-ordered trial residence, the townsfolk rally to ___________ and ____________ him into

___________. Under the __________of an unemployed ____________ (Gleeson), they go to ___________ lengths

to fabricate all the_____________ of the big city and make it seem as though their __________ town has everything

____________ Lewis could possibly want. Will the he fall for their tricks, or will he _____________through them to

the ___________ about small town life?

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THE GRAND SEDUCTION(2013) Director: Don McKellar. Screenwriter: Michael Dowse, Ken Scott. Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Gordon Pinsent, Liane Balaban. 113 minutes. PG


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When ___________ Renn (Woods) goes looking for __________ new

shows for his ___________ cable TV station, he __________ across the

pirate broadcast of a __________ torture show called Videodrome. As

he and his _____________ (Harry) struggle to unearth the ____________ of the program, he ______________ on a

______________ journey into a shadow world of conspiracies, ______________ and ___________ transformation.

Videodrome is one of David Cronenberg’s most ___________ and __________ works, and has come to be regarded

as one of the most influential and ____________ ___________ films of the ____________.

VIDEODROME (1983) Director/Screenwriter: David Cronenberg. Starring: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits. 87 minutes. R

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MY AMERICAN COUSIN(1985) Director/Screenwriter: Sandy Wilson. Starring: Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat. 90 minutes. PG

Sandy (Langrick) is a ___________ _______-year-old preparing

for another ______________ and __________ summer in rural

1950s ______________, when her older ___________, Butch (John

Wildman), arrives unexpectedly from ______________ in a shiny red ___________. Of course, the __________

Sandy is immediately dazzled by Butch’s ___________, ___________ swagger, whose appearance seems to promise

all the ___________ that Sandy has been ______________ for.

Based on writer-director Sandy Wilson’s own __________, My American Cousin won six __________ Awards

including Best ___________, Best ___________ (Wilson), Best Original _____________, Best ___________

(Wildman), Best ____________ (Langrick), and Best _____________. It remains one of Canada’s best loved

___________ films.

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