This Beautiful City

This Beautiful City

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 11, 2007

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama

User Score

40%

Original Title

This Beautiful City

Production Companies

Resolute Films and Entertainment, 3 Legged Dog Films, 20/40 Films

Director

Ed Gass-Donnelly

Description

Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.