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In Bed with an Elephant

In Bed with an Elephant

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 30, 1987

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

In Bed with an Elephant

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Kent Martin

Description

This feature documentary provides a gripping retrospective of United States-Canada relationships through a study of successive presidents and prime ministers. Using archival film footage, it demonstrates that Canadian prime ministers, from John A. Macdonald down, all began their tenures by making overtures to their American counterparts. Attitudes and outcomes have varied widely. The almost comic antipathy between Kennedy and Diefenbaker, for instance, is as palpable here as is the folksy camaraderie of Reagan and Mulroney.