''The Uncles'' is a 2000 Canadian drama film directed by James Allodi. The film stars Chris Owens as John, an Italian Canadian restaurant manager in

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who is supporting his brother Marco (Kelly Harms), a college student, and sister Celia (Tara Rosling), who is disabled after a head injury. When Celia develops an obsession with kidnapping neighbourhood babies to indulge her maternal instincts, John and Marco hatch a plan to get her pregnant so that she'll have her own baby and stop stealing other people's. The film's cast also includes Dino Tavarone, Veronica Hurnick, Nicola Lipman, Deborah Grover, Alan Van Sprang, Tony Nappo and Carlos Díaz. The film premiered at the

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. It was a finalist for the Best Canadian Film award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2001, and was named to TIFF's year-end

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list. Owens received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the

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in 2002."Nominees for this year's Genie Awards". ''

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'', December 13, 2001.

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* 2000 films 2000 comedy-drama films Canadian comedy-drama films English-language Canadian films Films set in Toronto Films shot in Toronto Canadian Film Centre films 2000s English-language films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub