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Whole New Thing

Item number (ISN):

387297

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2005

Item number (ISN):

387297

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Type of material:

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

PALPABLE PRODUCTIONS INC.

Accession:

2005-0324

Media:

Film

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

2005

Production company:

Palpable Productions Inc.
Acuity Productions

Production credit:

director/script, Amnon Buchbinder; producer, Kelly Bray; Anita McGee; producer/executive producer, Camelia Frieberg; producer/script, Daniel MacIvor; photography, Christopher Ball; editing, Angela Baker; sound, Jim Rillie; sound editing, Jane Tattersall; Graham Jones; music, David Buchbinder

Cast credit:

Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Joy, Daniel MacIvor, Kathryn MacLellan, Callum Keith Rennie, Hugh Thompson, Aaron Webber

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

ThinkFilm

Current distributor:

Picture This ! Entertainment

Description:

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WHOLE NEW THING is an unconventional coming-of-age story of one unconventional, and rather exceptional, thirteen-year-old boy. Emerson Thorsen has just had his first wet dream, and completed writing and illustrating his first book. Unlike most boys his age, Emerson is bright, well-adjusted and able to hold his own in conversations with adults. Home-schooled by his eco-conscious parents in the wilds of Nova Scotia, the long-haired boy has been brought up in a household of casual nudity and openness about sex. Emerson's math skills being atrocious, his mother decides to enroll him in the local school. There, his fellow students, some of whom happen to be anti-intellectual bullies and extreme homophobes, treat Emerson's maturity and academic curiosity with distrust and suspicion. But, Emerson could not care less about them. His focus is directed at Don, the middle-aged English teacher, who, at 42, has settled into a life of perpetual adolescence, regularly escaping into anonymous sex in park toilets. Emerson's arrival in Don's class shakes up the teacher's staid routine of toiling to engage the minds of his slack-jawed pupils. This impresses Don who recognizes a bit of his younger, more enthusiastic self in Emerson. Emerson, initially scornful of his teacher, quickly develops his first crush - on Don. The precocious boy throws himself into this awakening of the heart with dangerous abandon. This will challenge all Don thinks he knows about being a teacher and a role model. At the same time, Emerson's absence causes his parents, Rog and Kaya, to confront the huge gulf that has emerged between them. <1h 32mn 17s>

Language:

English

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1. Produced and developed with the participation of Telefilm Canada.~2. Produced with the participation of the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation; Astral Media - The Harold Greenberg Fund.~3. Produced in association with CHUM Television; Astral Media - The Movie Network.~4. Produced with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit; Government of Canada - The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.~5. Filmed on location in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia and Halifax Regional Municipality.

Genre:

COMEDY
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Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Whole Thing Productions Inc., 2005.

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