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How Canadian is this?

posted 20 years ago by bdtiscool
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This film is in the Canadian section at the local video store. The store manager said it is her favourite Canadian movie. However, while watching it, I don't see why it is considered Canadian. Mostky films in the Canadian section are quite prominently Canadian. Aside from many members of the cast, this film seems quite American. The director, writer and producers are all from south of the 49th. It also appears to have been filmed entirely in the U.S. Does anyone know why it is considered Canadian? IMDB lists the USA before Canada as country on the main details page.

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[–] wayfarer (69) 3 years ago

... The OP apparently has never heard of Canadian-American productions before.

This thing could be said about ANY Canadian-American or British-American or whatever produciton.

does it really matter ? It has enough Canadians involved in the production, therefore its a Canadian-American film. It's reallly just a matter of categorizing films, it's not that big of a deal.

I would wonder if the OP has any idea HOW many Television productions are Canadian-American productions.. Are you going to go through the credits of all of those and decide which ones have a perfectly 50% ratio of Canadian and Americans , not 51% or 49%...