The Man that Got Away

Kanada, 2012
Length
25 minutes
Director
Trevor Anderson
Cast
  • Aryn McConnell
  • Bryce Kulak
  • Noam Gagnon
  • Connie Champagne

Content

Director's statement:
A musical. A life. My family almost forgot to tell me about my great-uncle Jimmy. True story, or so I'm told. Jimmy grew up on a farm, on the Canadian prairies, in the Rosebud Valley, during the Great Depression. His older brothers were teenage mechanics, or outfielders on the local baseball team. But not Jimmy. At ten years old, Jimmy was Georgie Kempt's star pupil in tap dance and acrobatics.
Jimmy: "O the sky is blue and the birds are too / And the rapeseed's high and yellow / And I got no clue what I'm s'posed to do / So I stand on a hill and bellow / I gotta get the frick outta this goddamn craphole / Before I lose my flippin' mind / Or throw myself into a combine / Fill the well fulla strychnine
Hell! This place is so gay and not in the good way."

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Credits

Production company
Dirt City Films
Original title
The Man that Got Away