Dirty (1998)

Directed by

Bruce Sweeney

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A marijuana dealer in Vancouver navigates her life and a sexual relationship with a young university student. The story follows their interactions and the people around them including a lonely roommate and a depressed shopaholic neighbor.

dryly comicmelancholicunderstatedintimatesluggishquirkydrearylow-keysexual

What happens

Dirty is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Bruce Sweeney and released in 1998. The film stars Babz Chula as Angie, a woman who deals marijuana out of her home in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano, and Tom Scholte as David, a young university student with whom she has a sexual relationship. The cast also includes Benjamin Ratner as Tony, David's roommate who has just moved to the city from Port Alberni and is feeling lonely and isolated as he tries to establish himself, and Nancy Sivak as Nancy, a depressed shopaholic woman who lives in Angie's basement apartment, as well as Vincent Gale, Frida Betrani, Abby J. Arnold, Rondel Reynoldson, Brendan Beiser, John Henry Canavan, Rob Carpenter, Fulvio Cecere, Marya Delver, Kathleen Duborg, Marcy Goldberg, George Gordon, Rebecca Harker and Micki Maunsell in supporting roles. The film premiered on January 14, 1998, at the Sundance Film Festival. It had its Canadian premiere at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival on September 14. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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