The Suburbanators (1995)

Directed by

Gary Burns

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a group of bored young adults in their twenties who drift through suburban Calgary strip malls and parking lots. They have little direction and spend their days loitering with no clear purpose.

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What happens

The Suburbanators is a Canadian road movie/comedy film written and directed by Gary Burns and produced in 1995 by Burns and John Hazlett. It tells the story of 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 CDN$65,000. It was invited to play at the Sundance Film Festival and sold to the Sundance Channel. It is the first of what writer George Melnyk calls a trilogy which concludes with Kitchen Party (1998) and waydowntown (2000). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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