Borderline Normal

I tuned into this film on a lazy Sunday afternoon, & was quite surprised by it. Normally I'm a bit skeptical about some of these Canadian films we put out, but Borderline Normal was truly a refreshing change.

The story is good, the acting is good overall, especially Catarina Scorsone. Her performance is absolutely smashing. Hopefully she'll get some more recognition in the future. She was also in The Third Miracle, and for the small role she played, she was very convincing.

It's worth checking out(I saw it on TMN)if you can find it. And true to my Canadian roots, if it's good and we helped make it, I'll plug it as best I can.

I saw this film in Belfast, last month at the Cinemagic film festival. It was easily the best film there! It is full of laughs but gets into some serious themes as well! I just read that it won the best film prize at the festival. The award is well deserved! I think it is a Canadian movie, so keep your eyes open for it. You won't be disappointed!

Saying that BORDERLINE NORMAL is simply a slice of viewing of lives of various is not that difficult to say. But since the minimum for required characters won't allow it, I have to explain the plot in the easiest of ways.

The movie mostly focuses on Jeremy Walling (Robin Dunne) that is dealing with the divorce of his parents (Corbin Bernsen and Stephanie Zimbalist) and in the meanwhile he goes out with his girlfriend Beth and trains for winning a basketball match often helped by coach Rehmer (Michael Ironside), and how it unfolds it's simply something you have to see for yourselves.

The acting was nice by all (especially Dunne, Bernsen and Ironside) and the ways the characters' lives are shown was decent even tho the divorce background might be depressing for those who lived it on their own skin (like me). But apart from that, still a decent movie highly recommended for those who like movies about the human condition.

This is the most appalling propaganda film attempting to sell the lie that any woman can be pushed to the edge of their sensibility and still remains fundamentally good and wholesome in spite of the emotional abuse they subject their young male CHILDREN to. Bravo Canada! Child abuse is legit if it involves abusing young men and being a poor female role model in their lives. Is there negative stars for this?!

Bravo.

Being a Canadian, I was finally proud to sit down and watch a movie with good acting, and a good story. Catarina Scorsone was fabulous! Corbin Bernsen and Robin Dunne are good too in this charming, wonderful little film. I am not sure if you can get it at a video store. It was on TMN (HBO equivalent) here in Canada. Well done!