Niagara Motel

Release	March 24, 2006 (Limited)
Cast	Caroline Dhavernas, Kevin Pollack, Craig Ferguson, Peter Keleghan, Anna Friel, Wendy Crewson, Kristen Holden-Ried, Damir Andrei, Tom Barnett
Director	Gary Yates
Writer	Dani Romain, George F. Walker
Genres	Comedy, Drama
Studio	Mongrel Media
Website	www.niagaramotel.ca

Synopsis

In Niagara Motel, a group of struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist mecca of Niagara Falls. They are not tourists and they are all, for various reasons, at crisis points in their lives.

The main characters are a pregnant waitress (Dhavernas) being recruited a sleazy "agent" (Pollack) to star in low budget porn videos, a young couple (Holden-Ried, Friel) with criminal pasts struggling to recover their child from social services, and a middle class husband and wife (Keleghan, Crewson) whose marriage is disintegrating. The story also includes the woeful drunken motel manager (Ferguson), a prostitute working to support two children, a small-time hustler, an underachieving staple salesman, the Serbian owner of the motel, his physics-studying daughter, and a social worker with a Christian bias.

The needs of these people, their obvious failings and the unlucky conditions of their lives make them so vulnerable that they careen from the disturbing to the hilarious in a breathless instant. In this story, tragedy waltzes with unpredictable comedy in an intense dance of life.

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