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C.R.A.Z.Y. best Canuck film of last 20 years
by: Oct 16, 2006 Print

It may not have the Academy Award statuette of Denys Arcand's Les invasions barbares, nor the record-setting box office of Bon Cop, Bad Cop, but Playback readers have voted Jean-Marc Vallée's Quebec drama C.R.A.Z.Y. the best Canadian movie of the past 20 years.

The 2005 sleeper hit stars Marc-André Grondin as a teen coming to grips with his homosexuality, his overbearing father (Michel Côté) and four brothers in the 1970s. Quebec audiences took to the film's underdog story and classic rock soundtrack featuring The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Pink Floyd, making it the top Canadian film at the 2005 domestic box office, with a total haul of $6.2 million.

The film was also a major award winner, sweeping 13 of 14 prizes at the Prix Jutra, and 10 awards at the Genies, plus the Golden Reel for box office. Despite a strong promotional push, however, it did not receive best foreign-language film nominations at the Golden Globes or the Oscars.

The film, budgeted at $8 million, was cowritten by Vallée and François Boulay and produced by Vallée and Pierre Even of Cirrus Communications.

Playback readers cast their votes online at www.playbackmag.com

In 2002, a similar Playback poll asking readers their choice for the best Canadian film of all time resulted in a win for Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter.


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