One Week

152

94 Minutes – Drama
Release date: March 6, 2009
DVD Release date: June 16, 2009
Canadian distributor: Mongrel Media

When One Week begins, Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) is getting the news that he has terminal cancer. Passing quickly through the denial phase, he decides he needs to act. He is overpowered by a need to capture some unknown yet vital experience while he still has some time. He needs to hit the road, and to do it alone, which obviously is going to complicate his relationship with fiancé, Samantha (Liane Biliban). Setting his sights on a cross-Canada road trip, he buys a vintage motorcycle and leaves Toronto heading west on the Trans-Canada Highway. Samantha tries to reconnect with her fiancé in a series of increasingly concerned calls from Toronto but Ben continues west, hitting the open spaces of the Prairies and the stunning, sometimes frightening beauty of the Rocky Mountains.

Poster and trailer courtesy of Mongrel Media. Used with permission.
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Crew:

Producer:

Michael McGowan
Nick de Pencier
Jane Tattersall

Executive Producer:

Richard Hanet
Joshua Jackson

Co-Producer:

Michael Chechik

Associate Producer:

Nadia Tavazzani

Line Producer:

Avi Federgreen

Director:

Michael McGowan

Screenwriter:

Michael McGowan

Cinematographer:

Arthur E. Cooper

Editor:

Roderick Deogrades

Composer:

Andrew Lockington

Production Designer:

Malcolm Byard

Art Director:

Romke De Vos (Set Decoration)

Cast: Roles:

Joshua Jackson
Liane Balaban
Campbell Scott
Grace Lynn Kung
Chuck Shamata
Gabriel Hogan
Colin Fox
Fiona Reid
Richard Waugh
Caroline Cave
Ulla Friis
Marc Strange
Gord Downie
David Reale
Jim Codrington
Michaela Mann
Marco Soriano
Peter Spence
Kyle Fairlie
Chris Benson
Jim Annan
Gage Munroe
Chad Nobert
Jane Spidell
Ryan Reid
Joel Plaskett
Deirdre Kirby
Leonard George
Ryan Allen
Emm Gryner
Jodi Brooks

Ben Tyler
Samantha Pierce
Narrator

Gerald Pierce
Derek Vincent
Father O’Neill
Mary Pierce
Baseball Coach
Nancy Tyler
Steffi
Art Carey
Biker
Pete
Pharmacist
Waitress
Concierge
Doctor
Oscar
Mayor
John
Young Ben
Badlands Tour Guide
Fran
Max
Busker
Mrs. Bell
First Nations Singer
Orderly
Tracey
Nurse Forrester