I Like Movies (2022)

Directed by

Chandler Levack

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 81 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A socially awkward teenage movie fanatic gets a job at a video store in the early 2000s. He develops a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

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What happens

I Like Movies is a 2022 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Chandler Levack. Set in the early 2000s, the film stars Isaiah Lehtinen as Lawrence, a socially inept 17-year-old cinephile who gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager. The film is produced by Lindsay Blair Goeldner with original score by Murray Lightburn from the Dears. Its cast also includes Romina D'Ugo, Krista Bridges, Percy Hynes White, Dan Beirne, Andy McQueen, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, and Alex Ateah. Levack has described the film as being based in part on her own teenage job in a video store, although she has stated that she chose to write the central character as male out of a desire to push back against the popular notion that women filmmakers can only tell female-oriented stories. The project was first announced as receiving funding from Telefilm Canada's Talent to Watch program for emerging filmmakers in 2019, under the working title Rejects Night. I Like Movies had its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022. It was released theatrically in Canada on March 10, 2023, by Mongrel Media, and has been picked up for worldwide distribution by Visit Films. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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