Passenger Side
Narrative Competition
(Canada, 2009, 85 mins)
HDCam
World Premiere
Directed By: Matthew Bissonnette
Executive Producers: Adam Scott, Corey Marr, Matthew Bissonnette
Producer: Corey Marr
Screenwriter: Matt Bissonnette
Cinematographer: Jonathan Cliff
Editor: Matthew Hannam
Cast: Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette, Robin Tunney
Saddled with his own frustrations, the last thing Michael wants to do is spend the day driving his recovering addict of a brother Tobey around Los Angeles. There’s too much history between them, and Michael has his doubts about his brother’s sobriety. Nevertheless, he agrees to pick Tobey up, but when a morning of harmless errands turns out to be an all-day commute from one end of Los Angeles county to another with each stop more mysterious than the last, Michael demands to know what exactly is going on. When he gets his answer, he realizes his day just got a lot more complicated.
Brotherly bonds bend, but they never quite break in writer-director Matthew Bissonnette’s comedy of sibling rivalry and verbal one-upmanship. As the bickering brothers, Adam Scott and Joel Bissonnette deliver their lines with the snap timing of a comedy duo and the believable antagonism of real-life brothers who have been embroiled in the same fight for years. A day in the car together isn’t going to solve their problems, but it may steer them in the right direction.
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