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The Cap
198423 min 48 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Robert Duncan
Production: Michael MacMillanSeaton McLeanJanice PlattAndy ThomsonRobert Verrall
Script: Robert Duncan
Co-produced by Atlantis Films Limited and the NFB with the participation of Telefilm Canada and the Global Television Network.
During autograph day at a Montréal Expos baseball game, young Steve meets his idol who, incredibly, gives him a baseball cap. Steve loses the cap and later sees the son of a wealthy businessman wearing it. When Steve and his unemployed father go to claim the cap, the scene between the two sons and the two fathers is emotional and dramatic. The Cap is a story of a father's struggle for dignity in the eyes of his son and of a son's attempt to hold on to a childhood dream. Based on the short story by Morley Callaghan.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary Works
- Literature and Language - Canada > Adaptations of Literary WorksCanadian Literature
- Families > Parent-Child RelationshipsWork and Unemployment
Credits
- director
- Robert Duncan
- script
- Robert Duncan
- producer
- Michael MacMillan
- Seaton McLean
- Janice Platt
- Andy Thomson
- executive producer
- Robert Verrall
- Michael MacMillan
- camera
- Andreas Poulsson
- sound
- Richard Besse
- editing
- Ginny Stikeman
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Adrian Croll
- music
- Chris Crilly
- cast
- Nicholas Podbrey
- Michael Ironside
- Jennifer Dale
- David Connor
- Steven Bernarski
- Roger Michael
- Andre Dawson
- Duke Snyder
- Dave Van Horne
- Tim Raines