Hey, celebrities are people too, ya know! Need proof? Just check out the massive insecurities, existential crises, homicidal tendencies and hidden secrets on hand in this stellar collection of stars behaving badly. But remember, don't look them directly in the eyes. They hate that. Running time: 86 minutes.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema: Thursday June 7, 7:45 pm
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| Mature matron Mary (Dame Judi Dench) is reduced to a neurotic, flustered teenager when she messages a man online for the first time in this lively comedy. Don't miss Tom Hiddleston's (Thor, The Avengers) quick cameo.
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| The Carrier
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| When she learns a shocking secret about her recently deceased son, a grieving mother (Rita Wilson, It's Complicated) sets out to meet his former lovers. But the biggest shock is still to come. Co-starring Academy Award winner Anna Paquin (True Blood) and Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill).
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| The Beaufort Diaries
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| David Duchovny (The X Files, Californication) addresses addiction and the corrupting influence of Hollywood as a wryly hilarious cartoon polar bear who relocates to La La Land and goes bonkers in Beverly Hills.
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| The Voorman Problem
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| Snooty head-shrinker Dr. Williams (Martin Freeman, The Office) is enlisted to examine a maximum security prisoner (Tom Hollander, Pirates of the Caribbean) who is convinced he's God. A clever comedy that turns psychiatry on its ear.
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| The End
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| Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool, Melancholia) is having an existential crisis. Discovering you've been edited out of all of your movies and digitally replaced with a younger actress will do that to you.
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| Butterflies
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| Television - the drug of the nation. Is it a door to heaven or a gate to hell? John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons) has an opinion, and expresses it here in typically unhinged, Malkovichian fashion, to striking stop-motion and hallucinogenic effect.
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| Blitzen Trapper Massacre
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| Rainn Wilson (The Office, Super) is Blitzen Trapper's number one fan! When the Portland country/folk quintet refuse to let him jam with them at a concert, the dejected groupie takes hero worship to a whole new level!
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| Pitch Black Heist
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| Two safe crackers must elude a light-sensitive alarm. But the safe and its contents aren't the only things being kept in the dark. Former Beta Band member John McLean directs Michael Fassbender (Shame) and Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones) in this cool, quirky caper.
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