The Heirloom

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The Heirloom

Mar 2025

1h 27m

Comedy

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A desperate filmmaker is seized by inspiration when he and his girlfriend adopt a traumatized rescue dog.

Johanna Schneller

Globe and Mail

The result is part auto-fiction, part therapy session and part cheeky joke (it’s very deadpan-funny). It also made my heart hurt, for everyone who’s ever suffered a quarter-life crisis.

Dec 2, 2024

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Cian McGrath

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At its heart, this is a story about COVID-19 lockdowns and the madness they inspired, whether through despair and dejection, sudden bursts of creativity, or thinking that adopting a pet could be the answer to all of life’s problems.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 3, 2025

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Caroline Madden

Vague Visages

The Heirloom doesn’t follow a conventional climactic structure, and its brittle, dry humor and abstract tone may not appeal to everyone. However, Petrie’s inventive vision is admirable, and it captures a very specific millennial anxiety that few films do.

May 25, 2025

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Emily DuGranrut

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The Heirloom transcends the trope of “pandemic movie” and becomes something far more relatable: a quietly devastating study of how close quarters can transform even the smallest cracks in a relationship into unnavigable canyons.

Apr 3, 2025

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Tom Atkinson

Film Threat

The Heirloom is lean and sharp, a film that knows exactly what it’s doing even when its protagonist doesn’t.

Rated: 8/10

Mar 21, 2025

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

I enjoyed [the duality between reality and fiction] and also invested in the Milly of it all considering her mannerisms are identical to how our Greyhound acted throughout his life, but the big draw is Glowicki’s performance during the second act.

Rated: 7/10

Mar 21, 2025

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Stephen C

Funny in 1 hour and 27 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/26/25

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Synopsis

A desperate filmmaker is seized by inspiration when he and his girlfriend adopt a traumatized rescue dog.

Director: Ben Petrie
Producer: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Justin Elchakieh
Screenwriter: Ben Petrie
Distributor: Factory 25
Production Co: Cheekdance Spectacular
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 27m

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