Breakfast with Scot

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Breakfast with Scot
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Laurie Lynd
Produced by	Paul Brown Howard Rosenman Nadine Schiff
Written by	Sean Reycraft
Starring	Thomas Cavanagh Ben Shenkman Noah Bernett
Music by	Robert Carli
Cinematography	David A. Makin
Editing by	Susan Shipton
Distributed by	Miracle Pictures (CAN) Regent Releasing Mongrel Media (CAN DVD) here! Films (US DVD)
Release dates	November 16, 2007 (CAN) October 10, 2008
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$3.5 million
Box office	$46,060

Breakfast with Scot is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It is adapted from the novel by Tufts University professor Michael Downing.

The screenplay was adapted by Sean Reycraft from the book by Michael Downing, and the film was directed by Laurie Lynd. The film attracted significant press attention in 2006, when the National Hockey League and the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that they had approved the use of the team's logo and uniforms in the film.^[1] Breakfast with Scot was the first gay-themed film ever to receive this type of approval from a professional sports league.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Eric McNally (Tom Cavanagh) is a gay retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam (Ben Shenkman), a sports lawyer. When Sam unexpectedly becomes the legal guardian of his brother's stepson, Scot (Noah Bernett), their lives are turned upside down as the demands of being a parent — as well as the boy's preference for clothing and hobbies which suggest that he may also be gay — begin to intrude ever more strongly on Eric's desire to remain closeted at work. Eric's unwillingness to accept the situation eventually fades as Scot teaches Eric about loving your true self.

Cast

Tom Cavanagh as Eric McNally
Ben Shenkman as Sam
Noah Bernett as Scot
Jeananne Goossen as Nula
Benz Antoine as Greg Graham
Shauna MacDonald as Joan
Graham Greene as Bud Wilson
Vanessa Thompson as Carla
Dylan Everett as Ryan Burlington
Colin Cunningham as Billy
Anna Silk as Mia
Robin Brûlé as Ms. Paul
Cameron Ansell as Finn O'Brien
William Cuddy as Young Maple Leafs Fan
Fiona Reid as Mildred Monterossos
Sheila McCarthy as Miss Patterson (uncredited)
Jay Anderson as Toronto Head Coach opening scenes

Although not listed in the credits the Milton Winterhawks, from Milton, Ontario played Scot's hockey teammates as background characters.

Awards

The film won the Globola Audience Award for the best international movie at the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg (Hamburg International Queer Film Festival) in October 2008.^[3]

It also won the Family Feature Film award from the Directors Guild of Canada, November 2008. ^[4]

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