Jo for Jonathan (2011)

Original title

Jo pour Jonathan

Directed by

Maxime Giroux

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

14A

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy admires his older brother who races cars illegally. He enters a race without a license and loses, then his brother steps in to help but gets badly hurt.

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What happens

Jo for Jonathan (French: Jo pour Jonathan) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Maxime Giroux and released in 2010. The film stars Raphaël Lacaille as Jonathan, a teenager who wants to emulate his older brother Thomas (Jean-Sébastien Courchesne) and become a player in the world of illegal car racing. Despite not yet having a driver's license, he enters a race and loses, getting into trouble as he does not have money to pay; Thomas must bail him out by racing himself, but is gravely injured in an accident. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2010, and had its Canadian premiere at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie in September. It went into commercial release in March 2011. Lacaille won the Borsos Competition award for best actor in a Canadian film at the 2010 Whistler Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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