New England Premiere I LIKE MOVIES

Canada 2022 - DCP - 99 minutes, in English

Director, Screenplay: Chandler Levack

Producer: Lindsay Blair Goeldner

Cast: Isaiah Lehtinen, Percy Hynes White

Print Courtesy: Visit Films

It’s 2003. Video stores abound; even DVD is a thing of the future, and movie theaters are not to be readily found in the small Ontario town where I Like Movies takes place. But its…shall we say “hero?” Maybe not exactly—Lawrence is a wisecracking, cinemamad, socially maladroit 17-year-old who works in one of those video stores, reluctant to rent videos of films he doesn’t like, creating movies in his mind and in his video camera, epics in his sights. But through his store’s no-nonsense manager, Alana, Lawrence’s perspective widens….and not just cinematically. I Like Movies is sweeter, funnier, smarter, and fresher than you can possibly imagine, a totally enjoyable watch for the audience (if this were the video store, we’d put it on the “Staff Picks” shelf that Lawrence institutes) and a real triumph for its debuting director, Chandler Levack, who seems to understand her young protagonist far better than he does himself. —KE

Sponsored by Lee and Peter Lyford