Poor Boy's Game
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Clément Virgo
Rossif Sutherland
Flex Alexander
Danny Glover
Laura Regan
Greg Bryk
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Released from prison after serving ten years for pummeling his opponent to the point of inflicting severe brain damage, working class pugilist Donnie Rose finds his efforts to start life anew complicated by simmering racism and long-suppressed vengeance. In the aftermath of Donnie's notorious bout with aspiring boxer Charlie Carvery, racial tensions in Halifax, Nova Scotia sharply divided the community between black and white. During his sentence Donnie not only honed his boxing skills to near perfection, but he also entered into a furtive affair with his black cellmate - a fact which he struggles to keep from his deeply prejudiced brother Keith. Though Charlie's vengeful father George has long looked forward to the day he will take revenge on the man who destroyed his son's life, the conflicted father discovers that he simply isn't a killer when finally given the opportunity to pull the trigger on Donnie. Subsequently offered $20,000 to step into the ring with fearsome local boxing champion Ossie Paris for a high profile grudge match that will surely spell his doom, Donnie soon finds help coming from the most unlikely of places.
Director
Clément Virgo
Cast
Rossif Sutherland
Flex Alexander
Danny Glover
Laura Regan
Greg Bryk
K.c. Collins
Tonya Lee Williams
Gil Anderson
Matthew Beasant-mckeown
Adrian Bowles
Cory Bowles
Lee J Campbell
Timothy Edmonds
Garnet Estabrooks
Carol Sinclair
Wes Williams
Crew
Roy T Anderson
Shelley Bailey
Gilles Belanger
Gary Coates
Damon D'oliveira
Bill Fleming
Hartley Gorenstein
D Dylan Gray
Shauna Hatt
Ivy Ho
Elizabeth Kavanagh
Jeanie Kimber
Darlene Lewis
Jennifer Macleod
Susan Maggi
David Mccallum
Luc Montpellier
Wendy O'brien
Christopher Porter
Gary Sandover
Jason Shurko
Jane Tattersall
Maggie Thomas
Chaz Thorne
Chaz Thorne
Clément Virgo
Clément Virgo
Byron Kent Wong
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2007
Released in United States February 2007
Released in United States October 2007
Released in United States on Video February 26, 2008
Released in United States September 2007
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 8-18, 2007.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Black Perspectives, World Cinema) October 4-17, 2007.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentations) September 6-15, 2007.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Canadian Images) September 27-October 12, 2007.
Straight-to-DVD release.
Released in United States 2007
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Canadian Images) September 27-October 12, 2007.)
Released in United States February 2007 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 8-18, 2007.)
Released in United States on Video February 26, 2008
Released in United States September 2007 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentations) September 6-15, 2007.)
Released in United States October 2007 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Black Perspectives, World Cinema) October 4-17, 2007.)
