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George Ryga's HUNGRY HILLS
04/10/2010 - 19:00
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$6 child/senior; $8 adult
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Rob King / Canada / 2009 / 92 min
After two years in a welfare residence for boys, fifteen-year-old Snit Mandolin (Kier Gilchrist ‘United States of Tara’) is eager to return home to his family farm in Saskatchewan, and his reclusive Aunt Matilda. Faced by a community that still shuns him, confronted by the impossibility of surviving on his aunt's farm, Snit falls in with Johnny Swift, another outcast. Johnny makes moonshine and sells it through a local bootlegger. The boys work together and become fast friends. Soon Snit finds first love with a free-spirited local girl, Robin (Alexia Fast).
Their adventure is interrupted by the enigmatic and unpredictable Roy Kane, the district's private cop, who took Snit away two years ago and will now use the boys to get to the bootlegger. Dogged by Kane, betrayed by a bootlegger and plagued by the ghosts of the past, the boys' friendship is broken. Alone once more in the community that rejected him, Snit comes to a violent crossroads. Based upon the award-winning novel by George Ryga and directed by Rob King, Gabrielle Rose plays the seemingly unhinged and reclusive role of Matilda Mandolin, aunt to Snit Mandolin in the film. The screenplay is written by Gary Fisher. DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE.
Website: http://hungryhills.com/
Trailer: http://hungryhills.com/trailer.htm
Read what Gary Fisher says about the film in the Vancouver Province.
About the Director
Rob King is a writer, director and founding partner of Minds Eye Entertainment. He has worked as a director on several television series, and has been nominated for a Gemini Award for his work on Corner Gas. His television films include Without Malice (00) and Moccasin Flats: Redemption (08). His first feature, Something More (99), was nominated for the Claude Jutra Award at the Genie Awards. George Ryga's HUNGRY HILLS is his latest feature.
Preceded by Funky Prairie Boy
PG: course language; violence.
Also screens on Wednesday April 14 at 12:30pm, Vancity Theatres
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