NFB Collection
The Ernie Game
19671 h 28 min 10 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
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