Monday Night Cinema

I Like Movies

This warm, funny coming-of-age debut feature is based on director Chandler Levack’s own formative experiences.

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Socially inept 17-year old cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school in New York City. To contribute to the hefty tuition fee, he gets his dream job at a video store. Wracked with anxiety about his future, Lawrence begins alienating the most important people in his life – his best friend Matt (Percy Hynes White) and his single mother Terri (Krista Bridges) – all while developing a complicated friendship with his older female manager, Alana (Romina D'Ugo).

As graduation looms ever closer, it becomes increasingly clear that Lawrence’s movie obsession (and his inability to tolerate anyone) is a way of burying a world of hurt and avoiding any real connection.