Description
A film by Daniel MacIvor
Featuring a "Who's Who" All-Star Canadian Cast:
- Paul Gross (Due South, Men With Brooms)
- Sandra Oh (Sideways, Under the Tuscan Sun)
- Rebecca Jenkins (Marion Bridge)
- Callum Keith Rennie (Blade: Trinity, Butterfly Effect)
- Maury Chaykin (Being Julia, Owning Mahowny)
Halifax Herald
"Wilby Wonderful is a superb, old-fashioned story-telling tale..."
From the Back Cover
"Wilby Wonderful" is a dark comedy about truth, transformation and the difficulty of finding a quiet place to kill one's self. Over the course of one day, we follow the lives of several characters in a small town as they attempt to maintain business as usual in the face of a very unusual business. Today in the small East Coast island town of Wilby, Carol French the local realtor, is trying to sell the Mayor a house that belonged to her recently deceased mother-in-law. Her police officer husband Buddy is in the middle of an investigation into the town's deviant underbelly. It seems that Buddy is also about to begin a love affair with the wrong-side-of-the-tracks just-back-in-town Sandra Anderson. Meanwhile, Sandra's daughter Emily isn't very happy that her mother has given her a handful of condoms to use with her new one-track-mind boyfriend. Add to the mix the apparently dyslexic sign painter Duck MacDonald, and MacKenzie Fisher, the Mayor's algebra-challenged young daughter and it's just another Thursday in Wilby. But then why is Dan Jarvis trying to kill himself in all the wrong places? Where are all the drugs suddenly coming from? And, what's Carol French going to do about that body in the closet?
