Underplayed Gems

Borealis (2015)

Borealis poster
Directed by
Sean Garrity
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
18A
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man takes his daughter on a road trip to see the Northern Lights in Churchill before she loses her sight to an eye disease. They are chased by a loan shark to whom the man owes a large gambling debt.

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What happens

Borealis is a 2015 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Sean Garrity. The film stars Jonas Chernick as Jonah Finn, a man from Winnipeg, Manitoba whose daughter Aurora (Joey King) suffers from a degenerative eye disease, who takes her on a road trip to Churchill to see the Northern Lights before she goes blind; however, the duo are simultaneously pursued by Tubby (Kevin Pollak), a loan shark to whom Jonah owes $100,000 in gambling debt. The cast also includes Jake Epstein, Emily Hampshire, Greg Bryk and Clé Bennett. Chernick, the film's screenwriter, wrote the film after his wife responded to My Awkward Sexual Adventure, his prior collaboration with Garrity, by asking him to make a film they could actually let their young daughter see. His original idea had been for the road trip to be to Tofino, British Columbia, but changed the destination to Churchill after realizing that several other movies, including Going the Distance and Foreverland, had already depicted characters taking road trips to Tofino. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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