Mongrel Media Presents NIAGARA MOTEL A Film By Gary Yates Based on George F. Walker’s Suburban Motel plays Starring Anna Friel, Craig Ferguson, Wendy Crewson, Caroline Dhavernas and Kevin Pollak (2005, Canada, 90 min.) Distribution 1028 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 1H6 Tel: 416-516-9775 Fax: 416-516-0651 E-mail:
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[email protected] High res stills may be downloaded from http://www.mongrelmedia.com/press.html 2 PRODUCTION NOTES Logline Niagara Motel captures the comic and tragic moments in the lives of eight people, each going through a personal crisis, as they cross paths at a low-rent motel in Niagara Falls. Synopsis Niagara Falls is a romantic destination for newlyweds and a symbol of beginnings, promise and potential. Not this Niagara Falls. In Niagara Motel, tragedy waltzes with comedy in an intense dance of life. Niagara Motel is about people who are at the Falls for other reasons than tourism. They are all, for various reasons, in personal crisis and at the end of their tether. They are adrift, as in a fishbowl, where we can observe them thrashing, struggling and fighting for their lives. The characters veer from one extreme to another. You can laugh at them one moment and see right through to their flaws the next. One of them is Loretta Bourgogne (played by Caroline Dhavernas), the young, sexy and pregnant waitress at the Motel’s diner. She has her hands full with people who all want something from her.