http://www.thetrotskymovie.com/
The Trotsky is out on
DVD October 5th,
2010.
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/sorcerersapprentice/
This interview took place on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 during
Game #7 of the Habs/
Penguins game. (But it did not air till Tuesday, May
18th, 2010.) Same place, obviously as the
Urban Rush interview.
Note to
Erin Cebula: do not interview
CDN actors during a hockey game!
Some corrections: Jay just turned 28 in April.
What is Steve Darling talking about?
Nicolas Cage was in
Kick Ass. He just needs money!
I loved how they used
Depeche Mode's "A
Pain that I'm use to" (from their
Playing the Angel CD) in the trailer for
The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
The Trotsky opens
Friday, May 14th, 2010 across
Canada. In
Vancouver it will be at
Cinemark Tinseltown:
http://www.cinemark.com/theater_showtimes
.asp?theater_id=
504
You say you want a revolution?
History-based comedy tries to be smart but comes across as bizarre
BY JAY STONE, CANWEST
NEWS SERVICE
MAY 14, 2010
THE TROTSKY
Starring:
Jay Baruchel,
Emily Hampshire,
Saul Rubinek,
Colm Feore,
Michael Murphy
Directed by:
Jacob Tierney
PG: coarse language.
Running time:
120 minutes
Rating 2 1/2 out of 5
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You know the entire
Canadian acting community has turned out for a project when there's a scene -- as there is in the whimsical history-based comedy The Trotsky -- in which a high-school student who believes he's the reincarnation of Communist leader
Leon Trotsky appears on TV's e-Talk to be quizzed by
Ben Mulroney about his plans for a city-wide strike of students. Mulroney, playing himself, is cast as the older voice of reason in the scene.
Any movie that has room for Ben Mulroney to play Ben Mulroney (not to mention the voice-of-reason part) has obviously already enriched itself with the entire warehouse of Canadian talent.
Everyone who's anyone, and a couple more besides, are in The Trotsky. The result is a film that's more interesting for its faces -- those of
Genevieve Bujold, for instance, whom we haven't seen for so long, or Colm Feore, who looks so much like
Lenin that you wonder who's supposed to be whom -- than for its plot.
Actually, "whimsical history-based comedy" might have told you that.
Jay Baruchel, who appears in every other
Hollywood comedy (
How to Train Your Dragon, She's
Out of My League,
Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian,
Nick and Norah's
Infinite Playlist,
Tropic Thunder, et al) is
Leon Bronstein, son of a wealthy
Montreal factory owner (Saul Rubinek, the Jay Baruchel of his generation). Leon goes to work for his dad
and within the first week he is calling him a fascist and organizing a strike. The Bronsteins are a mixed Jewish-French-Canadian family, so his mother shows up with sandwiches.
"You don't want a nosh?" she asks. "
It's a hunger strike, Mom," Leon replies. Leon believes he's
Trotsky reborn. (Bronstein was Trotsky's birth name.)
He dresses in narrow-collared shirts, wears wire-rimmed spectacles, and has set his life along the Trotsky path: he plans to marry an older woman named
Alexandra, meet a
Stalin character, be exiled, and get assassinated.
This foray into pre-Revolutionary
Russian history becomes more irritating as it goes along, much like communism itself.
Leon appears to be mentally ill, but The Trotsky treats him as charmingly deluded as he marches through a series of encounters with authority, demanding rights and trying to unionize everyone.
When his father punishes his strike efforts by taking him out of an expensive private school and sending him to
West Montreal
High, Leon becomes a firebrand organizer who wants to bring the system to its knees.
His cause is the rights of students not to get detentions for wearing nose rings and having dirty shoes.
Director/writer Jacob Tierney (
Twist) is trying for a rally-the-masses drama that's a combination of If and
Norma Rae.
It's a high-school comedy that tries to be smart but comes across as too bizarre to believe in.
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