ACTRA Maritimes Award |
Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role |
Atlantic Canadian Award |
Best Acting - Female |
Best Acting - Male |
Best Atlantic Feature Film or Video |
Best Cinematography |
Best Direction |
Best Screenplay |
Rising Star Award |
Rising Star: Actor |
This could have been a GREAT coming of age movie but for poor ending. A 13 year old boy who is emotionally chained to an exceptionally violent father who also happens to be a drug dealer and thief, which he forces his son to take part in.
What was the point of this movie? The acting was good, the story looked like it was going somewhere, but it didn't.
Movie was fine until It shows a lot of woman's large cleavage hanging out of her top and the little boys staring at it! To be watching this with children or even your husband and have that come on is totally inappropriate...
Directed by Newfoundland's own Christian Sparkes, Cast No Shadow is an elegant looking film with definite roots in the province. Yet for all its beauty the story is mainly a gritty and honest family drama wrapped up in a coming-of-age tale.
This is not a family film. I say that right from the start not as a criticism, but to alert those who may be fooled by the youth of the main protagonist.