''One Night Stand'' is a Canadian thriller television film, directed by

Allan King Allan Winton King, (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009), was a Canadian film director. Life Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the Great Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School, in Kitsilano.The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

'', March 8, 1978. An adaptation of

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's theatrical play, the film stars

Chapelle Jaffe Chapelle Jaffe is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. She is most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for the television film ''One Night Stand'',Maria Top ...

as Daisy, a woman who goes out looking for a one-night stand after being dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday, and connects with Rafe ( Brent Carver), a mentally unstable street musician. The film's cast also includes

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, Susan Hogan and

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. Writing for ''

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'', Stephen Godfrey called the film essentially a Canadian version of '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar''. The film also received limited theatrical distribution in the United States.Janet Maslin
"FILM: 'ONE NIGHT STAND,' ROMANCE-CUM-THRILLER"
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'', April 29, 1982. The film won four Canadian Film Awards at the

29th Canadian Film Awards The 29th Canadian Film Awards were held on September 21, 1978 to honour achievements in Canadian film. They were the last Canadian Film Awards ceremony to be held before the program was taken over by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, ...

in 1978, for Best TV Drama, Best Actor in a Non-Feature (Carver), Best Actress in a Non-Feature (Jaffe) and Best Musical Score in a Non-Feature.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''.

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, 2000. .

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* 1978 television films 1978 films CBC Television original films Canadian Screen Award-winning films English-language Canadian films Films based on Canadian plays Films set in Toronto Films directed by Allan King Canadian drama television films 1970s Canadian films {{1970s-Canada-film-stub