''How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town'' is a 2015 Canadian

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film directed by Jeremy Lalonde.

Plot

The film stars

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as Cassie Cranston, a newspaper sex columnist returning to her hometown for her mother's funeral, for the first time since being slut-shamed by her high school classmates who caught her trying to lose her virginity.'How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town': Slamdance Review
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'', February 11, 2016. In trouble with her publisher because many of the sex stories she has written about were actually fictional, and with her former friends and neighbours because she has often written about them as

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s and rubes, she tries to square the circle by challenging the town to plan an

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to prove that they are not as provincial as she has depicted them, in turn giving her the opportunity to write a new true story.

Release and awards

The film premiered at the 2015

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. It was later screened at the 2016 Canadian Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Feature, Best Costume Design and Best Ensemble Cast. On May 13, 2015, the film was released in select theaters and

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in Canada by Northern Banner and in the United States by Gravitas Ventures.

Cast

Reception

The film has a user rating of 5.5 due to mixed critic reviews on

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References

External links

* * * {{Jeremy Lalonde 2015 films 2015 comedy films 2015 independent films 2010s sex comedy films Canadian independent films Canadian sex comedy films English-language Canadian films 2010s English-language films Films directed by Jeremy Lalonde Films set in Canada Films shot in Ontario 2010s Canadian films