True Confections
| True Confections | |
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| Directed by | Gail Singer |
| Written by | Gail Singer |
| Based on | True Confections by Sondra Gotlieb |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
True Confections is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 1991.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
The film's cast also includes Judah Katz, Chandra West, Jeff Pustil, Jill Riley, Stewart Bick and Daniel Kash.[4]
The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1991,[4] and was screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals in September.[5] 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.[6]
Award nominations
The film garnered three Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992:[7]
- Best Original Screenplay: Gail Singer
- Best Art Direction/Production Design: Andris Hausmanis
- Best Costume Design: Alisa Alexander
References
- ↑ "True confections: Sondra Gotlieb story embellished". Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 1991.
- ↑ "Singer: Cracking wise and felling lies". Toronto Star, September 2, 1991.
- ↑ "Film on Gotlieb book takes a few detours". Ottawa Citizen, August 24, 1991.
- 1 2 "True Confections shows there's more to Winnipeg than boys". Montreal Gazette, August 25, 1991.
- ↑ "Festival Of Festivals fills in its open spaces". Toronto Star, August 21, 1991.
- ↑ "Film-maker moves easily from comics to violence against women". Ottawa Citizen, April 13, 1995.
- ↑ "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 1992.