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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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