Daydream Nation
Running Time: Feature Film
Writer/Director: Michael Goldbach
Executive Producer: Tim Brown, Cameron Lamb, Sam Maydew
Producer(s): Trish Dolman, Christine Haebler, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Accepted: Toronto International Film Festival 2010- Opened Canada First!
Daydream Nation is a provocative yet humorous romance about a rural community shaken by the arrival of an acerbic teenage girl.
Seventeen year-old Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) has just moved to a tiny, nowhere town where an industrial fire burns ceaselessly and a serial killer is claiming young victims. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common with the permanently stoned kids that populate her new school, she pursues the one person she connects with — her handsome young teacher, Mr. Anderson (Josh Lucas).
A bizarre love triangle ensues between Caroline, Mr. Anderson, and a stoner classmate (Reece Thompson). A mash up of genres and tones, Daydream Nation is a coming of age story for the 21st century.
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CAST:
Kat Dennings
Reece Thompson
Josh Lucas
Andie MacDowell
Rachel Blanchard
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS:
TIFF 2010 Friday Sept 10, 6pm & Saturday Sept 11, 12 pm
CINEFEST, SUDBURY Sunday, Sept 26, 2 pm
CIFF, CALGARY Saturday Oct 2 — Eau Claire 2 — 5 pm
Longtime Variety Magazine critic Joe Leydon ranks Daydream Nation as the #3 film of the year in his Top Ten Films of 2011!