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125 Rooms of Comfort
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Wikipedia article
'125 Rooms of Comfort' is a 1974 Canadian drama film directed by Patrick Loubert.Waugh, Thomas, 'Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas'. Carleton University Press, 2006. . pp. 420-421.
The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay former musician who has been involuntarily institutionalized in an asylum by his family since showing up to his father's funeral in drag. When his father's will leaves him possession of a smalltown hotel in St. Thomas, Ontario, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to American real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans.Gerald Pratley, 'A Century of Canadian Cinema'. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 161.
Cast
* Tim Henry as Billie Joyce
* Jackie Burroughs as Bobbie Kidd
* Robert Warner as Jim McKeagan
* Robert A. Silverman as Oscar Kidd
* Les Barker as Leo Basho
* Sean Sullivan as Jack
* Michael Lewis as Pete
* Jackie Crossland as Marge
* Marcia Diamond as Doris
* Russ Little as Announcer
* Leonard Glenn as Byron Joyce
* Bob Vinci as Couple in Bed
* Enza Vinci as Couple in Bed
Critical response
Robert Fothergill of 'Cinema Canada' wrote that the film featured strong cinematography and editing, but that its script lacked a coherent narrative centre, and ultimately analyzed the film as a mangled metaphor for Canadian nationalism.Robert Fothergill, "125 Rooms of Comfort: A long review of a film you'll probably never get to see". 'Cinema Canada', No. 18 (March/April 1975). pp. 58-59.
Awards
The film was a nominee for Best Feature Film at the 26th Canadian Film Awards in 1975, but did not win."Competing as Canada's best". 'The Globe and Mail', October 9, 1975.
References
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