True Confections

True Confections is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 1991. Written and directed by Gail Singer and based on Sondra Gotlieb's Stephen Leacock Award-winning novel True Confections, the film stars Leslie Hope as Verna Miller, a young Jewish woman growing up in the 1950s who rebels against the rigid gender role assigned to women in her era due to her ahead-of-her-time sensibilities and life aspirations.

Rather than a strict adaptation of Gotlieb's novel, Singer added some material to the screenplay that was more reflective of her own experiences in that era.

The film's cast also includes Judah Katz, Chandra West, Jeff Pustil, Jill Riley, Stewart Bick and Daniel Kash.

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1991, and was screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals in September. Singer's documentary film Wisecracks was also screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals, making her the first filmmaker in the festival's history to have both a documentary and a narrative fiction film screened at the festival in the same year.