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A Beginner’s Guide to Endings

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93 minutes – Drama
Festival release date: September 17, 2010 (TIFF)
Release date: October 28, 2011
Canadian Distributor: eOne Films

Duke White (Harvey Keitel) hasn’t been an ideal father to his five boys. An inveterate gambler who never experienced a windfall he couldn’t blow within 24 hours, he has come to the end of his rope, literally. Years ago, he signed up his three eldest sons for unsafe drug tests that turned out to have dire consequences: the boys’ life expectancy have been substantially reduced. Upon receiving the news after their father’s funeral, the sons return to their family home in Niagara Falls, where they respond to their eminent demises in different ways. Womanizing Cal (Scott Caan) is determined to hook up with Miranda (Tricia Helfer), the one girl who got away. Cautious Jacob (Paulo Costanzo), the only son with a real job, is determined to take every risk he didn’t take earlier, usually accompanied by Duke’s youngest son, Todd (Siam Yu). And finally there’s his eldest, Nuts (Jason Jones), a boxer turned promoter who seems to have inherited his father’s love of the calamitous long shot.

A Beginner's Guide to Endings, movie poster

Crew:

Producer:

Nicholas Tabarrok

Executive Producer:

Sean Buckley
Bryan Gliserman
John N. Kozman
Tim Merkel

Associate Producer:

Joel Burch
Leah Jaunzems

Director:

Jonathan Sobol

Screenwriter:

Jonathan Sobol

Cinematographer:

Samy Inayeh

Editor:

Geoff Ashenhurst

Production Designer:

Svjetlana Jaklenec

Art Director:

Naz Goshtasbpour
Jessamyn Horsman (Set Decorator)

Costume Designer:

Candice Beuckx

Cast: Roles:

Scott Caan
Tricia Helfer
Harvey Keitel
J.K. Simmons
Paulo Costanzo
Jason Jones
Gavin Fox
Jared Keeso
James Preston Rogers
Allison Graham
Thomas Michael
Alex Appel
Rufus Crawford
Siam Yu

Cal
Miranda
Duke White

Jacob
Nuts
Rahm the Baptist
Juicebox
Big Mitch
Waitress
Ivan
Mindy
Referee
Todd