Big News from Grand Rock (2014)

Name: Big News from Grand Rock
Genre: comedy
Released: 2015-02-27
Duration: 1 h 27 min

Original title: Big News From Grand Rock
Directed by: Daniel Perlmutter
Genre: comedy
Country: Canada
Runtime: 1h 27m
Elsewhere: IMDb

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A small-town newspaper reporter makes up fake news stories based on old movies to boost his paper's sales. His plan works until a big-city journalist shows up to investigate one of his made-up scoops.

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What happens

Big News from Grand Rock is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Daniel Perlmutter and released in 2014. The film stars Ennis Esmer as Leonard Crane, a journalist for the community newspaper in the small town of Grand Rock. Faced with declining readership and the threat of the paper being sold off by owner Stan (Gordon Pinsent), he tries to save the paper's fortunes by writing fabricated news stories inspired by old movies suggested to him by the owner of the local video rental store (Aaron Ashmore), which works until Lucy (Meredith MacNeill), a journalist from the big city, arrives to investigate after he turns the 1996 thriller Extreme Measures into a story about secret medical experiments being conducted in Grand Rock. The cast also includes Kristin Booth, Tammy Isbell and Peter Keleghan as colleagues of Leonard's at the paper, Leah Pinsent as Grand Rock's mayor Jane Davis, and Art Hindle, David Reale, Josette Halpert, Ryan Worthing, Lorna Wright, Darcy Gerhart, Darcy Campbell, Shauna Bailey and Joyce Cyr in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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