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The Hamster Cage

Larry Kent

Canada2006 92min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

A black comedy about a messed-up family. Lucy and Paul have returned home after a long time to help her dad celebrate his upcoming Nobel Prize in physics. Up to this point, the family seems quite normal. However, as their uncle Sam and his girl friend Candy arrive, all the ugly truths about the family including sexual abuse, murder and incest come to life. It's a movie directed by Larry Kent, who was highly acclaimed by David Cronenberg, a master horror director, to be one of the few filmmakers that deserve the title  "director."

Diretor

Larry Kent

A professor at the University of Concordia discovered the lost films of Larry Kent in 2002, and ultimately resurrected a career Larry felt was impossible to continue. Major retrospectives were held across Canada in 2003, and film historians eventually unearthed the reality that Larry Kent was the first independent English Canadian filmmaker to make a feature film in Canada. BRAVO television snapped up the rights to his first four films and started showing them under a 'Larry Kent Film Festival'. Then Larry did what any natural-born filmmaker would do: he went out and made another film, THE HAMSTER CAGE, a good twelve years after 1992's MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, which he thought would be his last. At the age of sixty-eight, he went from being one of the youngest feature film directors in Canada's history to one of the oldest