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A Sunday Kind Of Love won’t make you want to skip brunch

A Sunday Kind Of Love (Geordie Sabbagh). 93 minutes. Opens Friday (April 15). See Listing. Rating: NN


A Sunday Kind Of Love puts an intriguing spin on the walking-and-talking movie.

We spend a day wandering around Toronto with “failed writer” Adam (Dylan Taylor, of What Would Sal Do?) and a charming young woman (Wynonna Earp’s Melanie Scrofano) who introduces herself to him by explaining that she is Death, come to escort him to the Hereafter – but only after he finishes his new novel.

This magic-realist twist, and the casual way it’s laid out, promise a more interesting movie than writer/director Sabbagh can deliver, especially once he’s constructed a love triangle between Adam, Death and Adam’s long-suffering live-in girlfriend, Tracy (Meghan Heffern).

A few moments work very nicely, and Taylor and Scrofano have a zippy chemistry that makes it a pleasure just to watch them sit and talk together. But Sabbagh’s script runs out of ideas about an hour in and spends the rest of its running time circling its inevitable ending until it gets there with a shrug.

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