The Drawer Boy

2017

1 hr. 39 min.

Drama

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88%

8 Reviews

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Miles stays with two farmers in order to gather stories about rural life and make a play abut it. All three of their lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.

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A beautiful, haunting film with exquisite performances. And a skillful adaptation of the play.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Arturo Perez Torres

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Stuart Hughes

Angus

Richard Clarkin

Morgan

Courtney Lancaster

Sally

Sochi Fried

Frances

Jakob Ehman

Miles

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J. Kelly Nestruck

Globe and Mail

While it never entirely shakes off its staginess - particularly in a climax in the kitchen - The Drawer Boy has performances to savour, especially a heartbreaking one by Hughes.

Nov 25, 2018

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Heidy Morales

Hye's Musings

The Drawer Boy is a really good production artistically and technically speaking... This is a definite nice take Healey's play.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 20, 2021

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

The Drawer Boy will resonate most deeply with those who do, in fact, have an appreciation for stage productions.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 6, 2020

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

The material remains strong, but even by the low budget standards of independent Canadian cinema, this staging of Healey's work is frustratingly inert and uninspired.

Rated: 4.5/10

Nov 29, 2018

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Liam Lacey

Original Cin

Excellently acted and directed, this adaptation of Michael Healey's 1999 stage play preserves the essence of the source material while adding many unique elements.

Nov 23, 2018

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Glenn Sumi

NOW Toronto

Ehman's wide-eyed navet feels authentic, while Hughes brings off his character's transformation without a trace of sentimentality.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 15, 2018

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Synopsis

Miles stays with two farmers in order to gather stories about rural life and make a play abut it. All three of their lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.

Director: Arturo Perez Torres
Executive Producer: Brendan Gall, Jefferson Mappin
Screenwriter: Michael Healey, Arturo Perez Torres
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 21, 2019

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