The Ernie Game
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Director Don Owen Music director Kensington Market Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Don Owen Country Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1967 (1967) Writer Don Owen (screenplay), Bernard Cole Spencer (original stories) Cast Alexis Kanner (Ernie Turner), Judith Gault (Donna), Jackie Burroughs (Gail), Leonard Cohen (Singer)Similar movies The Last King of Scotland , Raise the Red Lantern , Bambina , The King and I , The Newton Boys , The Trial Tagline Set in mid-winter Montreal, a mentally unstable man becomes involved with two different women which fuels his paranoia, forcing him to commit criminal acts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ernie Game is a 1967 Canadian drama film directed by Don Owen.
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Called "One of the most innovative examples of personal cinema to come from English Canada in the Sixties" by the Cinematheque Ontario, The Ernie Game was part of a proposed trio of works intended to celebrate the Canadian Centennial. The film centres on Ernie Turner and his attempts to survive in the world after he's released from an asylum. He grows increasingly alienated and his fragile mental state declines, moving between two women, ex-girlfriend and current lover. "The Ernie Game provides a resonant portrait of mental illness," writes Steve Gravestock of the Cinematheque, "its pathologically narcissistic protagonist representing Owen’s most nightmarish vision of the artist as fraud and pariah."
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, The Ernie Game received the Etrog Awards, now known as Genie Awards, for Best Direction and Best Feature Film in 1968. It was also entered into the 18th Berlin International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival
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