| Hayseed | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Josh Levy Andrew Hayes |
| Written by | Josh Levy Paul Bellini Steve McKay |
| Produced by | Laura MacDonald Martha Kehoe |
| Starring | Jamie Shannon Deborah Theaker Scott Thompson Mark McKinney |
| Cinematography | Jason Tan |
| Edited by | Andrea Folprecht |
| Music by | Robert Scott |
| Distributed by | Salter Street Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Hayseed is a Canadian comedy film, directed byJosh Levy andAndrew Hayes and released in 1997.[1] The film starsJamie Shannon as Gordon, a naive "hayseed" from a small town inNorthern Ontario who travels toToronto after receiving a tip from apsychic that his lost dog is in the city, and meets a bizarre cast of characters, from prostitutes to gaysex slave traders, during his trip.[2]
The film's cast includesDeborah Theaker,Elva Mai Hoover,Dan Lett,Daniel MacIvor,Scott Thompson,Mark McKinney,Maria Vacratsis,Dan Redican andBruce LaBruce. The soundtrack included songs byAndy Kim,Babybird,By Divine Right,Local Rabbits,Odds,Pansy Division,Rusty andTreble Charger.
The film premiered at the1997 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] and was subsequently broadcast on television byCitytv.[3]
In his 2003 bookA Century of Canadian Cinema,Gerald Pratley called the film "a low-budget fairy-tale romp and a welcome change from other films claiming to be comedies".[1] Writing for theToronto Star, Mitchel Raphael positioned Levy alongside LaBruce, playwrightBrad Fraser and novelistTodd Klinck as one of a wave of "new degenerates" whose work challenged rather than assimilating into the "gay establishment".[4]
Thomas Waugh'sMediaQueer site describes the film as a "Candide-style parable" which "somehow missed entering the Canadian canon, perhaps because the fresh, folksy but sex-savvy satire of innocence adrift was hard to pigeonhole as either queer or otherwise, or because theEgoyan-Cronenberg tastemakers prefer to keep our frothy comic sensibilities on television and reserve the Art Cinema for world-heavy themes."[5]
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