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One Man (film)
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Wikipedia article
'One Man' is a Canadian drama film, released in 1977."One Man: fine performances amid a Kafkaesque plot". 'The Globe and Mail', September 17, 1977. Directed by Robin Spry, the film stars Len Cariou as Jason Brady, a television journalist in Montreal who is investigating a chemical leak from a local factory which has poisoned a number of children.[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/27/archives/screen-len-cariou-stars-in-one-man-crusading-newscaster.html "Screen: Len Cariou Stars in One Man"]. 'The New York Times', July 27, 1979.
The film's cast also includes Jayne Eastwood, Barry Morse, August Schellenberg, Jean Lapointe, Carole Lazare, Danny Freedman, Jacques Godin, Vlasta Vrna, Sean Sullivan, Gilles Renaud and Peter MacNeill.
The film had relatively limited theatrical distribution, screening only in Toronto and Ottawa before airing on CBC Television in 1979."One Man is cheap sensationalism with a message". 'The Globe and Mail', August 18, 1979. It also had a brief theatrical run in New York City, following Cariou's Tony Award-winning performance in 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'.
Awards
The film won seven Canadian Film Awards in 1977: Best Actor (Cariou), Best Supporting Actor (Lapointe), Best Supporting Actress (Lazare), Best Screenplay (Spry, Peter Pearson and Peter Madden), Best Sound (Claude Hazanavicius), Best Sound Editing (Les Halman and Ken Pag) and Best Editing (John Kramer)."Ceremony dominated by two feature films: NFB Triumphs at Film Awards". 'The Globe and Mail', November 21, 1977. It was also nominated, but did not win, for Best Picture, Best Director (Spry), Best Actress (Eastwood) and Best Cinematography (Douglas Kiefer)."Who's up for what". 'The Globe and Mail', November 19, 1977.
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