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NATIONAL CANADIAN DAY CANLIBS Grab a friend – or five! Ask your group for word substitutions, then read it all back to them!

DOUBLE HAPPINESS (1995) Director/Screenwriter: . Starring: , Stephen Chang, Alannah Ong, . 87 minutes. PG

Jade Li (Oh), a ______Chinese Canadian, wants to become (adjective) a(n) ______without upsetting her extremely ______(profession) (adjective) ______. It’s a ______that Jade is finding______(family members) (noun) (adjective) to achieve. Talking in English, ______western clothes and going out with ______guys, Jade (verb ending in -ing) (adjective) leads a ______life when she leaves her ______-but-______domestic scene each day. Things (adjective) (adjective) (adjective) come to a ______when ______(Rennie), a white Canadian ______student, insists on turning (noun) (name) (school subject) their ______into something more ______. It’s a relationship that Jade’s ______would (noun) (adjective) (family members) ______. What should she do? (emotion)

Sandra Oh won the ______Award for her performance. The film also won awards in______, (verb ending in -ing) (place) ______and ______. (place) (place)

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ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER (2001) Director: . Screenwriter: Paul Apak Angilirq. Starring: , Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk. 161 minutes. AA ( with English subtitles)

Based on an ancient legend, Atanarjuat is a(n) ______(adjective) tale of ______, ______and ______. (emotion) (noun) (noun) The ______Atuat (Ivalu) has been promised to the (adjective) ______Oki (Arnatsiaq), the son of the tribe’s ______. However, she loves the ______(adjective) (noun) (adjective) Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq), a fast runner and excellent ______. When Atanarjuat is forced to ______the (verb ending in -er) (verb) ______Oki for Atuat’s ______, the events that follow determine not only his ______, but that (adjective) (body part) (noun) of his ______. (object) Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including eight Genies and the ______d’Or at the ______Cannes Film Festival. (French noun) (year)

THE F WORD (2013) Director: . Screenwriter: Elan Mastai. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Rafe Spall. 102 minutes. 14A

Wallace (Radcliffe) is a ______school dropout who’s been (subject) ______by ______relationships. Just when all his friends, (verb, past tense) (adjective) and even his ______roommate Allan (Driver), seem to be (adjective) finding ______, Wallace decides to put romance on hold. Of course, that’s when he meets Chantry (Kazan), a (emotion) ______who lives with her longtime ______, Ben (Spall). The dreaded “F word” in this ______(profession) (relation) (adjective) and hilarious______is “______.” Wallace and Chantry form an instant ______, but are (film genre) (word starting with F) (noun) both committed to keeping things ______, which might prove to be more______than either one of (adjective) (adjective) them imagined.

Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS GINGER SNAPS (2000) Director: John Fawcett. Screenwriter: Karen Walton. Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers. 108 minutes. R

In this Canadian cult ______, a ______woman’s (noun) (adjective) adolescent transformation gets ______than expected. (adjective) Teenaged sisters Ginger (Isabelle) and Brigitte (Perkins) live in Bailey

Downs, a ______town that has been hit by a ______run of ______attacks. On the night of (adjective) (adjective) (animal) Ginger’s first ______she is ______by a monstrous creature, setting her on the path to a much more (life milestone) (verb ending in -ed) ______than mere puberty held in store! (adjective) (noun)

With biting satire on the ______story,Ginger Snaps is a cult classic, ______with______, screams (film genre) (verb) (noun) and frightfully fun ______. Nominated for ______awards, the film went on to spawn two ______. (noun) (number) (plural noun)

BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD (2002) Director/Screenwriter: . Starring: Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray, Rishma Malik, Moushumi Chatterjee. 105 minutes. PG

Set in ______and its ______suburbs, Bollywood/ (Canadian city) (adjective) Hollywood ______subverts the ______conventions of (adverb) (adjective) both cultures. Rahul (Khanna), a ______South Asian-Canadian (adjective) ______, is pressured by his ______(Chatterjee) and ______to find a ______Hindu girl (profession) (type of family member) (type of family member) (adjective) to accompany him to the ______wedding ceremony of his sister (Malik). (adjective) As a joking way of accommodating them, he hires Sue (Ray), a ______escort girl, to pretend to be his fiancée. (adjective) Naturally, the two fall in ______, and just as naturally, ______ensue. Incorporating the ______(emotion) (plural noun) (adjective) stylistic excesses of Bollywood — the ______, the choreography and the music — Mehta allows Indian culture (noun) and societal attitudes to play out in ______. (same Canadian city as above)

Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS BON COP, BAD COP (2006) Director: Érik Canuel. Screenwriters: Leila Basen, Alex Epstein, Patrick Huard, Kevin Tierney. Starring: , Patrick Huard. 116 minutes. 14A (Bilingual: French and English)

A ______smash, Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a ______(adjective) (adjective) (film genre) about ______policemen who are thrown together to solve a crime (number) committed on the ______between and . (landform) ______(Feore) and ______(Huard) couldn’t be more different: one is a ______-speaker from (name) (name) (language) , the other is a ______-speaker from ; one never deviates from ______procedure, (language) (adjective) the other is a ______who refuses to ______by the rules. The detectives soon learn that (type of person) (action verb) if they are to solve this ______crime, which is linked to the world of ______, they need to stop (adjective) (sport) ______and work together. With ______performances from both ______, Bon Cop, Bad Cop (verb ending in -ing) (adjective) (plural noun) is a genuinely clever take on the ______genre that will keep you ______throughout. (film genre) (verb ending in -ing) (2013) Director: Don McKellar. Screenwriter: Michael Dowse, Ken Scott. Starring: , , , . 113 minutes. PG

A ______and ______English-language adaptation of the (adjective) (adjective) 2003 Quebecois ______La grande séduction, this film tells the tale (film genre) of a ______village in ______that (adjective) (industry) (province or territory) must secure a new ______in order to keep the community alive. When city ______Paul Lewis (profession 1) (profession 1) (Kitsch) arrives for a court-ordered trial residence, the townsfolk rally to ______and ______him into (verb) (verb) ______. Under the ______of an unemployed ______(Gleeson), they go to ______lengths (verb ending in -ing) (noun) (profession 2) (adjective) to fabricate all the______of the big city and make it seem as though their ______town has everything (plural noun) (adjective) ______Lewis could possibly want. Will the he fall for their tricks, or will he ______through them to (profession 1) (verb) the ______about small town life? (noun) Record something hilarious? Tag us! @CanFilmDay #CanFilmDay CANLIBS (1985) Director/Screenwriter: . Starring: , , Richard Donat. 90 minutes. PG

Sandy (Langrick) is a ______-year-old preparing (emotion) (number) for another ______and ______summer in rural (adjective) (adjective) 1950s ______, when her older ______, Butch (John (province or territory) (family member) Wildman), arrives unexpectedly from ______in a shiny red ______. Of course, the ______(city outside ) (vehicle) (adjective) Sandy is immediately dazzled by Butch’s ______, ______swagger, whose appearance seems to promise (adjective) (music genre) all the ______that Sandy has been ______for. (noun) (verb ending in -ing)

Based on writer-director Sandy Wilson’s own ______, My American Cousin won six ______Awards (plural noun) (noun) including Best ______, Best ______(Wilson), Best Original ______, Best ______(verb) (verb) (noun) (verb) (Wildman), Best ______(Langrick), and Best ______. It remains one of Canada’s best loved (verb) (verb) ______films. (film genre)

VIDEODROME (1983) Director/Screenwriter: . Starring: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits. 87 minutes. R

When ______Renn (Woods) goes looking for ______new (first name) (adjective) shows for his ______cable TV station, he ______across the (adjective) (verb) pirate broadcast of a ______torture show called Videodrome. As (adjective) he and his ______(Harry) struggle to unearth the ______of the program, he ______on a (type of person) (plural noun) (verb) ______journey into a shadow world of conspiracies, ______and ______transformation. (adjective) (plural noun) (adjective) Videodrome is one of David Cronenberg’s most ______and ______works, and has come to be regarded (adjective) (adjective) as one of the most influential and ______films of the ______. (adjective) (film genre) (decade)

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