It’s hard to find a film about younger people that no only has a good cast, but a naturally awkward one.
The stars of this film are neither especially pretty, nor very self-confident.
Nor could they possibly be. Jordan Gavaris plays Parry, a boy who wants nothing more than to escape from his small northern Canadian town.
His friend, Luke (Justine Banszky) wants to get away as well, but for different reasons. She’d be happy just to be anywhere else.
They’ve been each other’s only friends for quite some time, but things change when another girl comes to town.
Debbie (MacKenzie Porter) catches Parry’s eye, perhaps partially because she’s the first girl to much notice him.
At least, the first overtly feminine girl.
But that’s the basic set-up of the film.
We’ll leave the rest for you to discover on your own.
Fifteen year old Parry Tender doesn’t know where to turn.
Small town life is driving him crazy and a precocious girl who looks and acts more like a boy wants to be his girlfriend.
When a fluke atmospheric condition allows a fifty thousand watt Manhattan radio station to pump its infectious rock’n’roll signal into Canada’s far north, winning a radio contest might be Parry’s only way out.
very nice!
magic