The Drawer Boy (2018)

Directed by

Arturo Pérez Torres

Genre

drama film

Country

Mexico, Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

9.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young actor takes a job on a farm and slowly disrupts the long standing friendship of two older men who live and work there. As he digs into their past for a role, old wounds and secrets begin to surface.

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What happens

The Drawer Boy is a Canadian drama film, which was directed by Arturo Pérez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff, and released in 2017. An adaptation of Michael Healey's play The Drawer Boy, the film stars Jakob Ehman as Miles, a young actor who takes a job as a labourer on a farm owned by lifelong friends Morgan (Richard Clarkin) and Angus (Stuart Hughes), but finds that his presence has a destabilizing effect on the men's friendship. The film premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in 2017, and had its Canadian premiere at the Canadian Film Festival in 2018. At the Canadian Film Festival, it won the award for Best Feature Film. At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, the film received nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Clarkin) and Best Screenplay (Pérez Torres). Clarkin won the award for Best Supporting Actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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