The Ernie Game

19671 h 28 min 10 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction

G

Direction: Don Owen

Production: Gordon BurwashRobert Allen

Script: Don Owen

Co-produced by the NFB and the CBC.

A mid-winter romantic feature filmed in Montréal, although the story could take place in any city where those young people live who have left their parents' homes but still have not made homes of their own. Ernie's alienation is far more extreme than most. For him life is a game, not because he chooses to make it so, but because he is unable to make anything more of it. But for those who befriend him and eventually turn him loose again, his game is not enough.

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Subject categories


  • Social Issues > ConflictSocial ProblemsSub-cultureYoung Adults

Credits


director
Don Owen
screenplay
Don Owen
producer
Gordon Burwash
executive producer
Robert Allen
camera
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Martin Duckworth
sound
Roger Hart
editing
Roy Ayton
sound editing
Victor Merrill
music editing
Malca Gillson
re-recording
Roger Lamoureux
Michel Descombes
music
The Kensington Market
Leonard Cohen
cast
Jackie Burroughs
Anna Cameron
Leonard Cohen
Corinne Copnick
Roland d' Amour
Judith Gault
Alexis Kanner
Derek May
Louis Negin

Awards


  • Etrog for Best Feature FilmGenie Awards
  • Etrog for Best Direction - Category: Feature FilmGenie Awards
  • Honourable Mention and statuetteInternational Week of Cinema in Colour