The Trotsky
The revolution begins in high school
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 14, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jay Baruchel, Saul Rubinek, Colm Feore, Domini Blythe, Emily Hampshire & Michael Murphy | |
Performer: | Geneviève Bujold, David Julian Hirsh, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Ricky Mabe & Jessica Paré | |
Directed by | Jacob Tierney | |
Screenwriting by | Jacob Tierney | |
Produced by | Kevin Tierney | |
Director of Photography: | Guy Dufaux |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 72/100 --
Baruchal gives a charming performance, full of intellectual wit and good-natured charisma, but also take-charge sex appeal, albeit of the nerd variety.
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Cinemania
There's a solid sense, in its many subversive comical moments, that beyond the private emotional immediacy of Blackberries and Palm Pilots we are all propelled inside this larger, constantly evolving collective force called history, no matter what age.
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NewsBlaze
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If Norma Rae and Ferris Bueller's Day Off had a child, you've got to think it would probably be a lot like The Trotsky, a smart - if overlong - indie teen comedy.
Times-Picayune
Rating: 3/4 --
Fitfully charming and sitcom cute.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 3/5 --
The Trotsky is an endearing comedy that at times flirts with greatness, and those times are courtesy of Jay Baruchel's performance.
Jam! Movies
Certainly the film is cute in places, but the larger ideas that little Leon is messing about with are never any more than cardboard cutouts, a child's approximation of political thinking.
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
Rating: 2/5 --
Runs 20 minutes too long and several rungs above the head of its target audience.
New York Times
Product Description:
An unusually intense teenager gets the idea that his name defines his destiny in this offbeat comedy. Leon Bronstein} (Jay Baruchel) is a young man who has made the discovery that his birth name is the same as that of Leon Trotsky, the celebrated Russian revolutionary and socialist theorist. This coincidence leads Leon to believe that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky and it is his destiny to follow his path as closely as possible -- which is a bit difficult when you have rich parents and attend an upscale private school in Montreal. Leon's father (Saul Rubinek) gives his son a part-time job in one of his clothing factories, and within a day Leon is leading his fellow workers in a sit-down strike. Father isn't amused and punishes Leon by making him attend public school, but there the world-be revolutionary finds new ways to battle fascism -- which in this case is represented by Principal Berkhoff (Colm Feore) and Mrs. Davis (Domini Blythe), a teacher eager to give her students detention. Leon's pursuit of social justice causes him to fall in with Frank (Michael Murphy), a burned-out activist-turned-college professor, but Leon also finds himself infatuated with Frank's current girlfriend -- who, like Trotsky's great love, is named Alexandra (Emily Hampshire) and is nine years older than he. Directed by Jacob Tierney, THE TROTSKY was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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