TV Guide: Don McKellar

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Trailer Addict — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru". But Stella's cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella's deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu's full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but not

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Starz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: Two women - one a senior citizen violinist, the other a young singer - become fast friends while taking an comedy-filled road trip from Georgia to Toronto.

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Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: A city is ravaged by a plague of blindness - the cause is unknown, but the afflicted are quarantined and placed in custody. Cut off from the world, the patients battle their guards and each other in this startling drama.

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Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) is a woman who wrestles with her dream of becoming a singer, her fitness as a mother, and daily life without her partner Lee (James Johnston). Her past is riddled with drugs and regrets, the result of which left Lee dead in a desolate motel room in Hamilton, Ontario, and landed Emily with a six-month jail sentence. The only thing that she desires for the future is a loving relationship with her son Jay, who is being cared for by Lee's parents, Albrecht (Nick Nolte) and Rosemary (Martha Henry). While Rosemary blames Emily for the death of Lee, Albrecht recognizes the importance of the bond between a mother and her son, and his faith sets the standard for the faith Emily must find in herself.

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The Insider — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. BLINDNESS, starring Academy Award-nominee Julianne Moore, Gael Garc a Bernal, Mark Ruffalo, Sandra Oh and Danny Glover, is a psychological thriller about the fragility of mankind. Adapted from Nobel Laureate Jos Saramagos masterwork.Directed by Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) from a screenplay by Don McKellar

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IFC — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The film is directed by Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) from a screenplay by Tony Award-winner Don McKellar (The Drowsy Chaperone). Starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal.

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Hulu — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Don Mckellar reminisces about being a theater manager 15 years ago at the Toronto Film Festival.

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Apple Trailers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder. Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago.

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AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald directs the sentimental ensemble drama The Event. Nick (Parker Posey) is a district attorney investigating several deaths in the gay community of New York City's Chelsea District. It seems that many AIDS sufferers have died under similar mysterious circumstances. Each case suggest the use of assisted suicide, which is illegal in New York. HIV-infected cellist Matt (Don McKellar) has died of a drug overdose following a large party in Manhattan given by his family and friends. Nick first questions his lover Brian (Brent Carver), who runs an HIV support clinic. Still looking for answers, she interviews Matt's closest family members, including his mother Lila (Olympia Dukakis), his younger sister Dana (Sarah Polley), and his older sister Gaby (Joanna P. Adler). Meanwhile, Nick battles with her own past secrets involving her family back in New Jersey. The Event premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. - Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide