Themes: Arranged Marriages, Murder Investigations, Home From the War
Main Cast: Lindy Booth, Colm Feore, Earl Pastko, Mia Kirshner, Tom McCamus
Release Year: 2001
Country: CA
Run Time: 95 minutes
Plot
David Weaver makes his feature debut with this omnibus film in which each tale is told during different points during the 20th century, but in the same hotel room -- room 720. The film opens during the swinging '20s when a beautiful young woman, married against her will to a brutish thug of a man, endures a tension-fraught honeymoon. During the Depression segment, a mail-order bride from China meets her husband for the first time. Following the end of WWII, a soldier returns home to meet his girlfriend and his best friend. During the paranoia of the 1950s, a professor searches for his wife. During the 1980s, a lawyer has too much sex and debt, and during the dawn of the millennium, a woman comes to a newly refurbished room 720 to meet her Internet lover. Such acclaimed Canadian actors as Tom McCamus, Sandrine Holt, and Colm Feore star in this film, which was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Sandrine Holt; Russell Yuen; Albert Chung; David Hewlett; Janet Kidder; Raine Maida; Chantal Kreviazuk; Eugene Lipinski; Noam Jenkins; Jonathan Payne; Aron Tager
Credit
Jenny Lewis - Casting, David Weaver - Director, Ron Sures - Composer (Music Score), Chantal Kreviazuk - Composer (Music Score), Raine Maida - Composer (Music Score), David Greene - Cinematographer, Victoria Hirst - Producer, Bridget Newson - Screenwriter, David Weaver - Screenwriter
