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Apartment Hunting
''Apartment Hunting'' is a 2000 Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Bill Robertson. Its soundtrack contains much of the recorded oeuvre of cult musician Mary Margaret O'Hara, who also appears in the film. Premise Ben Riddick (Andrew Tarbet), an unhappily married journalist is forced to confront his feelings for his wife Sarah (Kari Matchett) when he is assigned by his employer to write a story about telephone personals services. Cast * Andrew Tarbet as Ben Reddick * Kari Matchett as Sarah * Matt Gordon as Mac McConnell * Tracy Wright as Steve * Arnold Pinnock as Dean * Rachel Hayward as Lola * John Evans as Victor Spoils * Mary Margaret O'Hara as Hellen * Valérie Jeanneret as Celine / Annie * Linda Kash as Realtor * Ralph Benmergui as Thurston Peacock III * Rosemary Radcliffe as Poncho Woman * Elena Kudaba as Cabbage Woman * Bill Lake Bill Lake ( W.F. Lake) is a Canadian actor whose career began in Vancouver and who has appeared in many movies, television movies and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Robertson (director)
Bill Robertson is a Canadians, Canadian film and television director, producer and screenwriter."Long wait for filmmakers". ''Toronto Star'', April 9, 1999. A 1988 graduate of York University's film studies program,"Canadian movie tale: It all started at the corner store". ''Toronto Star'', June 5, 1992. he released the feature film ''The Events Leading Up to My Death'' in 1991. He won an Acura Award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the Vancouver International Film Festival."Robertson wins screenwriting award". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 16, 1991. His second feature film, ''Apartment Hunting'', was released in 2000. His other credits include the short film ''A Christmas Haircut'', and the television series ''True Crimes: The First 72 Hours'', ''Museum Secrets'' and ''Ghostly Encounters''. References External links * Film directors from Ontario Canadian television directors Film producers from Ontario Canadian television producers Canadian male screenwriters Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Lake
Bill Lake ( W.F. Lake) is a Canadian actor whose career began in Vancouver and who has appeared in many movies, television movies and series, stage plays and commercials. He has over 175 credits in a variety of productions since the 1970s. Career Among his television credits are appearances in shows such as ''Monk'', '' Queer as Folk'', '' Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye'', '' Earth: Final Conflict'' and '' Stoked''. His movie credits include roles in '' The Hurricane'', ''Martin and Lewis'', '' Flash of Genius'', '' Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming'', ''Apartment Hunting'' and '' The Middle Man''. In 2001, Lake had a recurring role in the television series ''Soul Food Soul food is an ethnic cuisine traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans, originating in the Southern United States.Soul Food originated with the foods that were given to enslaved Black people by their white owners on Souther ...'' as Mr. Greene. Lake played the obsessed Detective Miller, who goes after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Romantic Comedy Films
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2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Canadian Films
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). '' Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series ''X-Men'', '' Final Destination'', ''Scary Movie'', and '' Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is '' Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; ''Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; '' Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and '' Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Advertisement
A personal advertisement, sometimes called a contact ad, is a form of classified advertising in which a person seeks to find another person for friendship, romance, marriage, or sexual activity. In British English, it is commonly known as an advert in a lonely hearts column. In India, it is a dating ad or matrimonial ad. The earliest personal ads were placed in newspapers among other classified ads, and typically had matrimony as the objective. As interest in personal ads grew, newspapers provided personals sections specifically for those ads. Later, newspapers and magazines for the sole purpose of personal ads were published. Lonely hearts clubs were organized in the 20th century to provide listings of ads to their fee-paying members. With the advent of the Internet, personal ads began to appear on online sites as well, eventually turning into profiles on dating sites and apps. Personal ads have been described by a researcher as "a valuable way of finding potential mates for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typical romantic comedy, the two lovers tend to be young, likeable, and seemingly meant for each other, yet they are kept apart by some complicating circumstance (e.g., class differences, parental interference, a previous girlfriend or boyfriend) until, surmounting all obstacles, they are finally united. A fairy-tale-style happy ending is a typical feature. Romantic comedy films are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies. However, a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres, not a single new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies. Description The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters meet, part ways du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Radcliffe
Rosemary Radcliffe (born 1949) is a Canadian comic actress, writer, composer and painter. She graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, then began her television career on ''Sunday Morning'' at CBLT Toronto. Career She performed in cabaret and theatre productions across Canada and then appeared in the off-Broadway production of Leonard Cohen's ''Sisters of Mercy'', an anthology of the Montreal poet's songs and poetry. During the 1970s, she was a member of The Second City comedy troupe performing in Toronto and Chicago. From 1975 to 1978, she played the title character in the CBC Television children's show '' Coming Up Rosie''. In 1980 and 1981, Radcliffe toured Canada with two revivals of the venerable revue Spring Thaw. In 1982, ''Skin Deep'', the musical show she composed (libretto written by Nika Rylski) won the Eric Harvie award for best new Canadian musical and was presented for the summer on the main stage at the Charlottetown Festival. The story of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Barkin
Paul Barkin is a Canadian film producer.Gayle MacDonald, "A labour of Love six years in the making". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 27, 2009. He is most noted as a producer of the 2021 film '' Night Raiders'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Picture at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.Brent Furdyk"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack" ''ET Canada'', February 15, 2022. His other credits have included the films '' Apartment Hunting'', '' Kardia'', ''Amreeka'', ''The Con Artist'', '' The Colony'', ''Stockholm'' and ''Firecrackers''. An alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is a charitable organization founded by filmmaker Norman Jewison in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1988. Originally launched as film school, today it provides training, development and advancement opportunities for pr ..., he is the president of Alcina Pictures. References External links * Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Benmergui
Raphael "Ralph" Benmergui (born 1955) is a Canadian television and radio personality, a writer, an ordained spiritual director, and a strategic advisor in political, environmental, and academic realms. Early life and education Born to a Sephardi Jewish"Shabbat goes universal" . '' Jewish Tribune'', April 20, 2012. family in , , and raised in |
