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Director
  
Pekka Mandart

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country
  
Canada Finland

Release date
  
February 1998 (1998-02) (Los Angeles Filmmarket) July 31, 1998 (1998-07-31) (Finland)

Writer
  
Tony MacNabb (story), Pekka Mandart (story), Morrie Ruvinsky (screenplay)

Music director
  
Johnnie Lee Michaels, Marty Simon

Genres
  
Romance Film, Thriller, Drama film

Cast
  
Mikko Nousiainen
,
Michael Ironside
,
Melissa Galianos

Similar movies
  
Mikko Nousiainen appears in Going to Kansas City and Restless, Concrete Night (2013), Heart of a Lion (2013), Naked Harbour (2012), Purge (2012)

Going to Kansas City is a 1998 Canadian-Finnish drama film directed by Pekka Mandart. The film is about a male exchange student from Finland, who falls in love with an American girl, whose father does not accept the relationship. Shot in Canada, the film is set in the rural town of Canaan that is located 120 miles west of Kansas City.

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Cast

  • Mikko Nousiainen as Mikko Vihavainen
  • Melissa Galianos as Carly Malone
  • Michael Ironside as Deputy Sheriff Mike Malone
  • Susan Almgren as Bonnie Bruckner
  • Daniel Pilon as Jack Bruckner
  • Kris Holden-Ried as Charlie Bruckner
  • Mark Camacho as Billy Ossining
  • Karine Dion as Karen Olson
  • Shawn Potter as Tink Kolchek
  • Adam MacDonald as Floyd Weaver

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    Production

    The director Pekka Mandart adapted the idea of the story from a magazine article about a love story between a Finnish exchange student and an American girl.

    Out of a total budget of 17 million Finnish markka (mk), 11 million mk came from the Canadian production company Telescene. The Finnish Film Foundation granted a three-million mk production support for Going to Kansas City. The total amount of production costs were 14,278,968 mk.

    Reception

    Going to Kansas City had a total of 42,524 admissions in Finnish theatres.

    The film was a nominee for the Best Music at the 1999 Jussi Awards and the National Council for Cinema (of Finland) awarded it a 100,000 mk Quality support for film productions.

    References

    Going to Kansas City Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Going to Kansas City IMDb