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Niagara Motel

Item number (ISN):

384423

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2004

Item number (ISN):

384423

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MUSE ENTERTAINMENT ENTREPRISES INC.

Accession:

2005-0020

Media:

Film

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

2004

Production company:

Continuous version
Indian Grove Productions Inc.
Muse Entertainment Enterprises
Buffalo Gal Pictures Inc.

Production credit:

director, Gary Yates; producer, Terence S. Potter; Phyllis Laing; Michael Prupas; Bernard Zukerman; executive producer, Jacqueline Quella; Tom Parkhouse; script, George F. Walker; Dani Romain; photography, Ian Wilson; editing, Simon Cozens; sound, Russ Dyck; sound editing, Ken Wheeler; Antony David; music, Guy Fletcher

Cast credit:

Craig Ferguson, Anna Friel, Kevin Pollak, Wendy Crewson, Caroline Dhavernas, Peter Keleghan, Kris Holden-Reid, Tom Barnett, Catherine Fitch, Janet-Laine Green, Krista Bridges, Normand Daneau, Damir Andrei, Pierre Collin, Daniele Lorain

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Mongrel Media

Current distributor:

Mongrel Media~Christal Films~Park Entertainment Ltd.

Description:

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NIAGARA MOTEL is a feature drama set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The story takes place in and around a rundown motel operated by Boris, an overtly irritable Serbian immigrant, and his unprepossessing daughter Sophie. The film introduces us to a group of idiosyncratic individuals who find themselves, for one reason or another, at major crisis points in their lives. We meet a sexy waitress from Québec by the name of Loretta, who is courted by her emotional, but clueless boyfriend, Dave, and also by Michael, a sleazy pimp-like crook who promises the young Québecoise fame and fortune if she agrees to star in his low-budget erotic videos. We also meet a young couple, former druggies with criminal pasts, struggling to recover their child from the clutches of social services. Finally, the motel hosts Henry and Lily, a middle-aged, middle-class married couple, stuck in a relationship that is disintegrating in near-record time. The film explores these characters' needs, hopes, desires and aspirations in the face of hurtful failings and sordid realities of their lives. Their vulnerabilities allow them to meander from the disturbing to the hilarious in a breathless instant. In Niagara Motel, life's mundanities waltz with tragic events and comedic unpredictabilities in an intense dance of life. <1h 30mn>

Language:

English / French / Serbo-Croat with English subtitles

Notes:

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1. This film is a Canada / United Kingdom co-production - an Indian Grove / Muse Entertainment / Buffalo Gal Pictures / Niagara Productions Ltd. production in association with Telefilm Canada and Aquarius Films.~2. Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada; Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry (CTF: Licence Fee Program); Manitoba Film and Sound; Government of Manitoba - Manitoba Film and Video Production Tax Credit; Government of Ontario - Ontario Film and Video Production Tax Credit.~3. Produced with the participation of the Government of Canada - Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.~4. Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (www.cbc.ca); The Movie Network; Movie Central: A Corus Entertainment Company.~5. Produced for Venus Films, an Aquarius Film Company.~6. Distribution - English Canada: Mongrel Media, Toronto.~7. Distribution - French Canada: Christal Films.~8. International distribution: Park Entertainment Ltd.~9. The film is in English with occassional French with English subtitles, and Serbo-Croatian without subtitles.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

445703

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2007-10-0306

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

90:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

446628

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-11-0114
2007-11-0115
2007-11-0116
2007-11-0117
2007-11-0118

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

446629

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-11-0119
2007-11-0120
2007-11-0121
2007-11-0122
2007-11-0123

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Niagara Productions (Muse) Inc., 2004.~Copyright owner: Motel Productions (Manitoba) Inc., 2004.~Copyright owner: Niagara Productions Ltd., 2004.

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