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Coopers' Camera

Coopers' Camera is a 2008 Canadian comedy film, directed by Warren P. Sonoda.[1] The film centres on the Coopers, a dysfunctional family who are recording their family Christmas in 1985 on their new video camera, only for the holiday to descend into chaos.[2]

Coopers' Camera
Directed byWarren P. Sonoda
Written byJason Jones
Mike Beaver
Produced bySean Buckley
Nicholas Tabarrok
StarringJason Jones
Samantha Bee
Peter Keleghan
Mike Beaver
CinematographySamy Inayeh
Edited byAden Bahadori
Warren P. Sonoda
Music byRob DeBoer
Tony Grace
Production
companies
Buck Productions
Darius Films
Distributed byBoutique Films
Release date
  • September 7, 2008 (2008-09-07) (TIFF)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film stars Jason Jones and Samantha Bee as Gord and Nancy Cooper, Peter Keleghan as Gord's brother Tim and Mike Beaver as Uncle Nick, as well as Boyd Banks, Jennifer Baxter, Dave Foley, Jayne Eastwood, Dylan Everett, Gage Munroe and Rob Tinkler in supporting roles.

The film was shot in Toronto in early 2008, while Jones and Bee were on hiatus from The Daily Show.[3]

The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

Reception edit

The film received four Canadian Comedy Award nominations at the 10th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009, for Best Performance by a Male in a Film (Jones), Best Performance by a Female in a Film (Bee), Best Direction in a Film (Sonoda) and Best Writing in a Film (Jones, Beaver).[5] Bee won for Best Performance by a Female.

In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ Katrina Onstad, "Christmas folly". CBC News, September 13, 2008.
  2. ^ Ken Eisner, "Coopers' Camera". The Georgia Straight, November 25, 2009.
  3. ^ Marise Strauss, "Sonoda set for Cooper’s Camera". Playback, February 4, 2008.
  4. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "Meirelles's 'Blindness,' Mehta's 'Heaven on Earth' set for TIFF". Canadian Press, July 15, 2008.
  5. ^ "Young People F---ing leads comedy nominations". CBC News. July 6, 2009. Archived from the original on August 2, 2018.
  6. ^ Barry Hertz, "The 23 best Canadian comedies ever made". The Globe and Mail, June 28, 2023.

External links edit

  • Coopers' Camera at IMDb  


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