Film: NURSE. FIGHTER. BOY November 16, 2010

This screening is part of the St. Louis International Film Festival.

Dir: Charles Officer, Canada, 2008, 93 min.

“Nurse.Fighter.Boy” is a Toronto-set love story about the heart of a fighter, the soul of a mother, and the faith of a child. Silence (Clark Johnson of “Homicide” and “The Wire”) is a past-his-prime boxer who fights illegally to survive. Jude (Karen LeBlanc) is a dying single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. And Ciel (Daniel J. Gordon) is a boy who attempts to conjure a cure for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl lands the fighter in the nurse’s care, causing the trio’s fates to be forever entwined. Seattle’s alt-weekly the Stranger says the film “moves at a lazy, seductive pace that makes you want it never to end.” Nominated for 10 of Canada’s Genie Awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay, “Nurse.Fighter.Boy” won the Best in World Cinema Audience Award at the Sarasota Film Festival.

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