Mount Pleasant (2006)
- Directed by
- Ross Weber
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
Three families in a Vancouver neighborhood face separate crises. A young couple fears for their daughter after a needle accident. A wealthy family struggles with their rebellious teenager. A teenage prostitute and her boyfriend deal with addiction.
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What happens
Mount Pleasant is a 2006 Canadian drama film, directed by Ross Weber. Set in the Vancouver, British Columbia, neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, the film centres on three families brought together by fate: Doug (Benjamin Ratner) and Sarah (Camille Sullivan), a young couple who have just moved into the neighbourhood but face a crisis when their young daughter Courtney (Haley Guiel) has to undergo HIV testing after accidentally pricking herself on a used needle discarded in their yard; Stephen (Shawn Doyle) and Anne (Kelly Rowan) Burrows, a wealthy couple challenged by the rebelliousness of their teenage daughter Megan (Genevieve Buechner); and Nadia (Katie Boland) and Nick (Tygh Runyan), an underage prostitute whom Stephen is hiring for sex and her drug addict boyfriend. The cast also includes Jillian Fargey, Nancy Sivak, Jennifer Clement, Nicole LaPlaca, William MacDonald, Mylène Dinh-Robic, Sophie Yendole, Cam Cronin, Megan Leitch and Peter LaCroix. The film premiered at the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival, before going into commercial release in early 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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