MOVING DAY directed by Mike Clattenburg, written by Clattenburg and Mike O’Neill, with Will Sasso, Gabriel Hogan and Victor Garber. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (July 20). For venues and times see Movies. Rating: NNN
Maybe I’m getting soft…
I’ve seen so many great Canadian actors take on crappy screenplays that when I see great actors in a movie with a not completely terrible script I get all warm and 3N toasty.
Will Sasso plays Clyde, the lovable schlep who, alongside an alcoholic foreman (Gabriel Hogan) and a wise-cracking ex-con (Charles Q. Murphy), works for disreputable moving company owner Victor Garber. Clyde has ambitions beyond being a moving man but appears be going nowhere fast.
Even with a too pat ending, the film has an endearing quality – director Clattenburg created the Trailer Park Boys TV series and directed both TPB movies, so he knows his losers – aided and abetted by appealing leads Sasso and Murphy and a lovingly selected Canuck indie soundtrack.
