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'The Uncles' is a 2000 Canadian drama film directed by James Allodi."Light-hearted film brings Toronto's Little Italy to life". 'National Post', June 15, 2001.
The film stars Chris Owens as John, an Italian Canadian restaurant manager in Toronto who is supporting his brother Marco (Kelly Harms), a college student, and sister Celia (Tara Rosling), who is disabled after a head injury."Plots collide on College St.". 'Toronto Star', June 29, 2001. When Celia develops an obsession with kidnapping neighbourhood babies to indulge her maternal instincts, John and Marco hatch a plan to get her pregnant so that she'll have her own baby and stop stealing other people's."Planned parenting turns creepy". 'The Globe and Mail', June 29, 2001. The film's cast also includes Dino Tavarone, Veronica Hurnick, Nicola Lipman, Deborah Grover, Alan Van Sprang, Tony Nappo and Carlos Daz.
The film premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival."Festival's Canadian series opens in Maelstrom ; Quirky film by Denis Villeneuve one of 15 homegrown features premiering this year". 'Toronto Star', July 26, 2000. It was a finalist for the Best Canadian Film award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2001,[https://variety.com/2001/film/awards/memento-remembered-by-toronto-crix-1117857551/ "Memento remembered by Toronto crix"]. 'Variety', December 19, 2001. and was named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list."Lists, lists and lists: Tops in video". 'Peterborough Examiner', December 20, 2001.
Owens received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002."Nominees for this year's Genie Awards". 'Toronto Star', December 13, 2001.
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