Sleeping Giant (film)
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Marc Swenker
James Vandewater
Aaron Yeger
Andrew Cividino
Reece Moffett
Nick Serino
| Sleeping Giant | |
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| Directed by | Andrew Cividino |
| Written by | Andrew Cividino |
| Produced by | Karen Harnisch Marc Swenker James Vandewater Aaron Yeger Andrew Cividino |
| Starring | Jackson Martin Reece Moffett Nick Serino |
| Cinematography | James Klopko |
| Edited by | James Vandewater |
| Music by | Chris Thornborrow |
Production companies | Film Forge Productions Hawkeye Pictures |
| Distributed by | D Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Sleeping Giant is a 2015 Canadian drama film written and directed by Andrew Cividino. The film follows three teenage boys coping with boredom in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior.
The film premiered in the Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It is an expansion of a short film that Cividino made in 2013,[2] which was nominated for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards. The film is named after the Sleeping Giant cliffs near Thunder Bay.
Teenage Adam Hudson is spending his summer vacation with his upper middle-class parents in Thunder Bay on rugged Lake Superior. His dull routine is given a jumpstart when he befriends Riley and Nate, working-class cousins staying with their grandmother, who pass their ample free time with debauchery and reckless cliff jumping. Sporadically joined by Adam's friend Taylor, the three boys become inseparable, but their friendship is uneasy and rife with hormonal tension, bullying and jealousy.
Riley witnesses Adam's father engaging an extramarital affair with a local shopkeeper and tells Adam, who begins to act out in his father's company and engage in increasingly dangerous mischief with his friends. The revelation of his father's infidelity triggers a series of irreversible events that test the bonds of friendship and change the boys forever.
Cast
- Jackson Martin as Adam Hudson
- Nick Serino as Nate
- Reece Moffett as Riley
- Katelyn McKerracher as Taylor
- Rita Serino as Grandma
- Erika Brodzky as Marianne
- David Disher as William Hudson
- Taylor Facca as Shanna
- Lorraine Philp as Linda Hudson
- Kyle Bertrand as Brad
Influences
Cividino has listed numerous films and filmmakers as influences for Sleeping Giant, including Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock, Mike Nichols' The Graduate, and Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank.[3]
