Many people reproach Hollywood films for being too formulaic. However, despite being an independent film, Mount Pleasant looks like a product taken out of an assembly line. In fact, the only thing the film is able to look like a caricature of an independent film taking place in a North American metropolis.
The film takes place in Vancouver, the second largest city of Canada, in the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. This sector is mostly inhabited by poor people, but Doug (Benjamin Ratner) and Sarah (Camille Sullivan), a middle-class couple with a daughter (Haley Guiel), form an exception. While their daughter, Courtney, played in the backyard, she finds a junkie's discarded needle. After that moment, the Camerons's life becomes intertwined with that of other people. They come across Nadia (Katie Boland), a fifteen-year-old prostitute who dropped the discarded needle in front of the Camerons' house.
Then, there are also Anne (Kelly Rowan...
The film takes place in Vancouver, the second largest city of Canada, in the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. This sector is mostly inhabited by poor people, but Doug (Benjamin Ratner) and Sarah (Camille Sullivan), a middle-class couple with a daughter (Haley Guiel), form an exception. While their daughter, Courtney, played in the backyard, she finds a junkie's discarded needle. After that moment, the Camerons's life becomes intertwined with that of other people. They come across Nadia (Katie Boland), a fifteen-year-old prostitute who dropped the discarded needle in front of the Camerons' house.
Then, there are also Anne (Kelly Rowan...
- 5/27/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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