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The Suburbanators

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Plot
Reception
References

The Suburbanators is a 1995 film produced by Gary Burns and John Hazlett and directed and written by Burns. It is a road movie/comedy about bored, estranged slackers in their 20s who spend their time in suburban strip-malls, subdivisions and car lots in Calgary. The film was made for $65,000 Canadian.^[1]

Plot

Bob (Stephen Spender) and Al (Joel McNichol) are passing time by driving around and looking for marijuana. In another part of town, two other young men, Eric (Jacob Banigan) and Carl (Stewart Burdett), are also trying to buy drugs.

A group of musicians (Jihad Traya, Ahmad Taha, Rogy Masri) are at a Middle Eastern restaurant. The musicians go to the suburbs to find a relative after they accidentally get their instruments locked up in an apartment. Carl starts a fight with a novelist and Eric almost gets arrested for drugs in a police raid and then Eric starts a fight with the musicians. Carl and Bob steal some drugs.

Reception

Variety noted the "sharp editing and tight control of actors" and the use of "[b]leached colors, oblique camera angles and bargain-basement lighting".^[2] The film, which was aimed at male Generation X viewers, showed the unromanticized drabness and pettiness of life in the suburbs in Western Canada, a stark contrast to the majestic mountains often shown in postcards.^[3]

References

1. ^ Melnyk, George.One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2004. p. 220
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/the-suburbanators-1200443572/ |title=The Suburbanators |last=Eisner |first=Ken |date=2 October 1995 |website=variety.com |publisher=Variety |access-date=1 September 2018 |quote=}}
3. ^ Melnyk, George.One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2004. p. 220

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