7 Movies Starring Don McKellar

Highway 61

Highway 61

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-04-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1139 Reviews)

Director:

Bruce McDonald

Genres:

ComedyMusic

Cast:

Writer:

Allan Magee

Bruce McDonald

Don McKellar

Fullplot:

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Exotica

Exotica

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-03-03

Languages:

English, Hebrew

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (13352 Reviews)

Director:

Atom Egoyan

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

The 'Exotica' is a nightclub on the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs. Watches jealously, especially as far as the extra attentions regular customer Francis garners are concerned. Thomas, meanwhile and erstwhile, goes through a series of, um, interesting situations involving his pet shop, a gruff taxi-sharing stranger, unexpected tickets to the opera and smuggled eggs of a rare bird. Multiple story lines unfold in a splendid tangle of cutbacks, forward and backward references and recurring themes, all woven around the Exotica, its customers and employees. A calm roller-coaster ride of a movie, visually and intriguingly and emotionally moving. O, and the sound track is notable, too.

Never Met Picasso

Never Met Picasso

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-11-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (104 Reviews)

Director:

Stephen Kijak

Fullplot:

A gay thirty year old lives at home and is in the midst of a serious creative funk. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, he looks to his charismatic Uncle Alfred for inspiration.

Last Night

Last Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-10-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

Canada, France

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (7930 Reviews)

Director:

Don McKellar

Fullplot:

It's 18:00 in a somewhat deserted Toronto on the last day before the scheduled end of the world at midnight, the end which has been known now for months. Most people are treating midnight as a matter-of-fact event with little sense of panic. In fact, many are celebrating this last day. Most have very specific wants for this last day and will do whatever they need to to make those wants happen. And some, such as Duncan and Donna with the gas company, are working, ensuring that the masses are served and comfortable during the final hours. The Wheeler family are marking the last day by having a Christmas party, although sullen adult son Patrick, his thoughts in part stemming from being recently widowed, has made it clear he wants to be alone in his own home at the end. Patrick's wants may be in jeopardy when a woman named Sandra - Duncan's wife - lands on his doorstep. Sandra is stranded, trying to make it across town to her own home so that she and Duncan can carry out their own last night pact at the stroke of midnight. As Patrick tries to help Sandra on his own, mostly unsuccessfully, they try to enlist the assistance of various people, including Patrick's best friend Craig, who has his own sexually oriented last day list of tasks. As Sandra goes on her quest, Duncan himself faces his own issues while waiting for his wife. But as midnight approaches, some can't fulfill their planned destiny so have to make some quick improvisations, while the priority of others changes.

Last Night

Last Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-10-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

Canada, France

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (7950 Reviews)

Director:

Don McKellar

Fullplot:

It's 18:00 in a somewhat deserted Toronto on the last day before the scheduled end of the world at midnight, the end which has been known now for months. Most people are treating midnight as a matter-of-fact event with little sense of panic. In fact, many are celebrating this last day. Most have very specific wants for this last day and will do whatever they need to to make those wants happen. And some, such as Duncan and Donna with the gas company, are working, ensuring that the masses are served and comfortable during the final hours. The Wheeler family are marking the last day by having a Christmas party, although sullen adult son Patrick, his thoughts in part stemming from being recently widowed, has made it clear he wants to be alone in his own home at the end. Patrick's wants may be in jeopardy when a woman named Sandra - Duncan's wife - lands on his doorstep. Sandra is stranded, trying to make it across town to her own home so that she and Duncan can carry out their own last night pact at the stroke of midnight. As Patrick tries to help Sandra on his own, mostly unsuccessfully, they try to enlist the assistance of various people, including Patrick's best friend Craig, who has his own sexually oriented last day list of tasks. As Sandra goes on her quest, Duncan himself faces his own issues while waiting for his wife. But as midnight approaches, some can't fulfill their planned destiny so have to make some quick improvisations, while the priority of others changes.

Waydowntown

Waydowntown

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-01-25

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(1660 Reviews)

Director:

Gary Burns

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Gary Burns

James Martin

Patrick McLaughlin (additional writer)

Fullplot:

Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.

Blindness

Blindness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-03

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

Canada, Brazil, Japan

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (56411 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Josè Saramago (novel)

Don McKellar (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is, however, one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble.

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