Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2002
The Wild Dogs
Buy The Wild Dogs now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'The Wild Dogs ' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Thom Fitzgerald and released in 2002.Marla Cranston, "Capturing a world: Thom Fitzgerald gets real in film starring street people of Bucharest". 'Halifax Daily News', September 16, 2002. Set in Romania, the film is an examination of the moral and ethical compromises that people can be forced into when living in poverty.Alison Auld, "The Wild Dogs, a film about poverty in Bucharest, screens at Halifax festival". Canadian Press, September 16, 2002.
The film debuted at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.Martin Knelman, "Film fest goes Bollywood ; Director Deepa Mehta's new movie to open Perspective Canada". 'Toronto Star', July 24, 2002.
Plot
Fitzgerald acts in the film as Geordie, a pornographer sent to Romania by his boss Colin (Geraint Wyn Davies) to scout for young girls for the company. On the flight he meets Victor (David Hayman), a Canadian diplomat based in Romania who has just been diagnosed with cancer and needs Geordie's help when they arrive in Bucharest, where he in turn meets Victor's wife Natalie (Alberta Watson) and daughter Moll (Rachel Blanchard).Peter Howell, "Canadian director has his dog day". 'Toronto Star', June 6, 2003. As he is actually exposed to conditions in the city, however, Geordie's perspective on his job changes; instead of photographing young women for sexual exploitation, he starts photographing people and conditions around the city in a documentary-like manner.Greg Potter, "No Lassie in this heavy dog drama". 'Vancouver Courier', June 8, 2003.
Cast
*Rachel Blanchard as Moll
*Visinel Burcea as Sour Grapes
*Mihai Calota as Bogdan
*Geraint Wyn Davies as Colin
*Nelu Dinu as Dorutu (as Dinu Viorel Nelu)
*Thom Fitzgerald as Geordie
*David Hayman as Victor
*Simona Popescu as Varvara
*Marcel Unguriano as Radu
*Alberta Watson as Natalie
Awards
The film won four awards at the 2002 Atlantic Film Festival, for Best Canadian Film, Best Director (Fitzgerald), Best Sound Design (Hayward Parrott) and Best Editing (Michael Weir)."Fitzgerald wins big at Atlantic film fest". 'The Globe and Mail', September 23, 2002. It received three Genie Award nominations at the 24th Genie Awards in 2004, for Best Supporting Actor (Hayman), Best Editing (Weir) and Best Original Score (Sandy Moore).John McKay, "La Grande Seduction, Barbarian, lead Genies". 'Hamilton Spectator', March 17, 2004.
Fitzgerald picked up an "Emerging Master" trophy from the Seattle International Film Festival."Fitzgerald feted at festival". 'Halifax Daily News', June 19, 2003.
References
Buy The Wild Dogs now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 2002