Waydowntown

Name: Waydowntown
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 25, 2002
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Don McKellar, Fab Filippo

2002

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Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) | Release Date: January 25, 2002 | R

Starring: Don McKellar, Fab Filippo

Summary: The world of interconnected office buildings, apartment complexes and food courts (shot in all its fluorescent glory on digital video) is the backdrop for waydowntown, where young office workers Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt, have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest. (Lot 47 Films)

Director: Gary Burns

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 87 min

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Jack Mathews

Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Has a poignant undertone: We may feel we already know in our bones just how suffocating this culture is; but the people who made this movie seem to be discovering each fresh horror for the first time. It's like watching a virgin sacrifice. Read full review

Jay Carr

The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Occasionally resembling an episode of Seinfeld taken to the big screen, waydowntown shares that show's ability to mine mundane details for humor, and its Tomorrowland-gone-awry setting provides plenty of raw material. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Steve Simels

The acting is similarly accomplished across the board, though it must be noted that Currie nearly walks off with the film: He's the funniest preppie seducer since Tim Matheson in "Animal House" (1978). Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Quirky and sometimes hilarious Canadian comedy. Read full review

Ken Eisner

Third outing for prairie auteur Gary Burns is his most ambitious, and most uneven, effort yet. Read full review

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