Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2008


Coopers' Camera

Buy Coopers' Camera now from Amazon

First, 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




'Coopers' Camera' is a 2008 Canadian comedy film, directed by Warren P. Sonoda.Katrina Onstad, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/christmas-folly-1.721150 "Christmas folly"]. CBC News, September 13, 2008. The film centres on the Coopers, a dysfunctional family who are recording their family Christmas in 1985 on their new video camera, only for the holiday to descend into chaos.Ken Eisner, [https://www.straight.com/article-271997/vancouver/coopers-camera "Coopers' Camera"]. 'The Georgia Straight', November 25, 2009.

The film stars Jason Jones and Samantha Bee as Gord and Nancy Cooper, Peter Keleghan as Gord's brother Tim and Mike Beaver as Uncle Nick, as well as Boyd Banks, Jennifer Baxter, Dave Foley, Jayne Eastwood, Dylan Everett, Gage Munroe and Rob Tinkler in supporting roles.

The film was shot in Toronto in early 2008, while Jones and Bee were on hiatus from 'The Daily Show'.Marise Strauss, [https://playbackonline.ca/2008/02/04/copper-20080204/ "Sonoda set for Coopers Camera"]. 'Playback', February 4, 2008.

The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.Cassandra Szklarski, "Meirelles's 'Blindness,' Mehta's 'Heaven on Earth' set for TIFF". Canadian Press, July 15, 2008.

The film received four Canadian Comedy Award nominations at the 10th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009, for Best Performance by a Male in a Film (Jones), Best Performance by a Female in a Film (Bee), Best Direction in a Film (Sonoda) and Best Writing in a Film (Jones, Beaver). Bee won for Best Performance by a Female.

References




Buy Coopers' Camera now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2008



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1107939732.