Wilby Wonderful
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Daniel MacIvor, Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross, Rebecca Jenkins, Sandra Oh Director: Daniel MacIvor Brand: Repnet LLC DVD: Region Code 0 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 99 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-01-01 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Film Movement |
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Movie Reviews of Wilby Wonderful
Movie Review: Sandra Oh is the Comic Relief!
Summary: 4 Stars
Wilby Wonderful is a charming comedy about the lives of 6 people transformed in the course of a day in a small Canadian Town called Wilby. It has three stories interwined together making this film a funny, thought-provoking, heartfelt, and wonderful experience. It deals with love, family, homophobia, and relationship. A lot can happen in one day even in a small town like Wilby.
Dan Jarvis(James Allodi) is a video store owner, and his wife just abandoned him, because he's been a closeted gay man.Not able to deal with his coming our issues, he's depressed and suicidal. His house is up for sale, and Carol French(Sandra Oh), a realtor is busy trying to polish it up for resale after taking over it. She is very ambitious and a total perfectionist that she basically ignored the emotional and sexual need of her husband Buddy(Paul Gross) who is cop. She gets very aggravated when the handy-man Buck(Callum Keith Rennie) accidentally made the sign Wilby Wonderful instead Wonderful Wilby. Buck is openly gay, and he had an instant crush on Dan.
Meanwhile, Buddy is frustrated by her unavailable wife, and seeks possible good times with his high school old flame Sandra Anderson(Rebecca Jenkins) who is now a single mother with a teenaged daughter(Emily/Ellen Page). Emily is a rebellious case, and she's being manipulated by a boy for sexual favors. Sandra has feelings for Buddy, but knows he's unattainable.
More dramas and surprises take place and things all unexpectedly improved for these six people despite the chaos they had to endured.
All six leads are superb in their performances. The mother and daughter relationship was very touching and Rebecca Jenkins was perfect for the role of an unhappy single mother. The development of the relationship between Dan and Buck was underwritten, but it was a wonderful and subtle treatment that was kind of romantic. Carol and Buddy had gone from not looking like a married couple at first to finally reconnected and realized the importance of their marriage. Overall, it was Sandra Oh who was most striking, because she's so uptight, funny, and she generated most of the laughs in the second half of the film. It's so nice to see her star in a Canadian film again since she crossed over to Hollywood.