This Beautiful City

This Beautiful City (2007)

Drama

Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.

Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly

Casts

	Aaron Poole as Johnny
	Kristin Booth as Pretty
	Caroline Cave as Carol
	Noam Jenkins as Harry
	Kat Germain as Zoe
	Tony Nappo as Crack
	Jack Murray as Waiter
	Christopher Cordell as Green Jacket Jock
	Kevin Hanchard as Father
	Stuart Hughes as Peter
	Marvin Ishmael as Bill

Crew