Breakfast with Scot (2007) directed by Laurie Lynd

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Director: Laurie Lynd

Writers: Michael Downing (novel)
Sean Reycraft (writer)

Release Date: 9 September 2007 (Toronto Film Festival, Canada)
11 January 2008 (Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA)

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, Sport

Tagline: He's a little different.

Plot: Eric and Sam have been in a committed relationship for four years. Eric's a former hockey player turned sportscaster and Sam's a sport's lawyer. But when Sam's adventure seeking brother Billy, takes a job in South America, his ex-girlfriend, Julie, is discovered dead from a drug overdose leaving her son Scot (not Billy's son) to Billy. But Billy is missing in action so Sam is left to pick up the pieces. But the problem is Eric never wanted kids. When 11-year-old Scot arrives and they open his duffel bag, inside they find... one pink musical hairbrush, two plastic containers of beads and faux-gold chains, a pink poodle belt, and four pairs of white sock-ettes with lacy fringe at the top... they realize Scot is more out of the closet then they are even though he does not know it yet. A unique boy in an even more unusual situation, Scot throws Eric and Sam's life into complete disarray. When Billy finally show's up to take Scot back to South America - Eric and Sam can't bear the thought of losing Scot.

Awards: 2008 Directors Guild of Canada Team Award as Feature Film - Family
2008 Young Artist Award nomination as Best International Feature Film and as Best Performance in an International Feature Film - Leading Young Performer (Noah Bernett)

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Cast (in alphabetical order)
Tom Cavanagh ... Eric McNally
Ben Shenkman ... Sam
Cameron Ansell ... Finn O'Brien
Benz Antoine ... Greg Graham
Noah Bernett ... Scot
Robin Brûlé ... Ms. Paul
William Cuddy
Colin Cunningham ... Billy
Dylan Everett ... Ryan Burlington
Travis Ferris ... George Jr.
Megan Follows ... Barbara Warren
Mark Forward ... Snickering Businessman
Alexander Franks ... Joey Morita
Jeananne Goossen ... Nula
Graham Greene ... Bud Wilson
Kathryn Haggis ... Andrea Burlington
Adam Korson ... Referee
Shauna MacDonald ... Joan
Sheila McCarthy
Benjamin Morehead ... Hank
Billy Parrott ... Security Guard #2
Alex Popovic ... Walter Wodlowski
Fiona Reid ... Mildred Monterossos
Edwina Renout ... Mrs. Morita
Anna Silk ... Mia
Vanessa Thompson ... Carla
Jamie Ferenczi ... Grocery store patron (uncredited)

Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

This is a very nice and good movie. The quality is high, the feeling is of a big money movie and the actors are all good, above all the little boy. It's not much a movie about love between lovers than a story about love between father and son, and the skill you need to be a good father. Since Scot, the young boy, is obviously gay, to be sent to live with a gay couple could be considered a wise move. But Eric is not exactly the fatherly type, and he is still in the closet, and Sam has not the patient to be a good parent. And so are not Sam and Eric who teach to Scot, but it's Scot who becomes the master of how to live good being yourself.

[storm-grant.livejournal.com]

Well said, Elisa. I loved this movie.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

It's really a good movie, it's not necessarily a gay movie, but more mainstream. And the main actor is really handsome ;-) Elisa

[lab-jazz.livejournal.com]

I didn't like this one so much :( though I agree with you that it is a nice movie.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you like it? Maybe since it's not so romantic? Elisa

[lab-jazz.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the characterisation of "Scot". I thought that he was far too overly gay. It was like he was the product of a homophobic straight person...their idea of how a gay child would act. The movie would have worked a lot better ffor me if he had been toned down a little:(
I think the movie went overboard in trying to be cute. But hey that's just me...I'm sure the world is full of people who just love that movie.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

mmm, I see your point. I think Scot is so overly gay to be even more a contrast with his "stefathers" that despite being gay, are more straight than not. Elisa

[marquesate.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really fun movie, I'm pre-ordering it as we speak. :-) Thanks for the heads-up, Elisa, I wouldn't find any of these films if you didn't blog about them.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to give you good advice. This is really a good movie, I know you will be not disappointed. Elisa

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

It's such a fantastic movie. I lent it to my mother when she was in hospital and she loved it too. The book was great too, different enough from the film to make it seem like it almost wasn't the same story.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I have the book in my reading list. Probably I will read it soon. Elisa

[snowmore.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this movie. I like watching a family evolve and learn to be a family together. I really liked the role of Scot, though agree with lab_jazz that he was a bit over-the-top. That being said, the little actor who played Scot did a great job.

I did miss the lack of romance between the men, but the story as a whole made up for it.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, also I wouldn't have minded a bit of romance between the two adults. Elisa

[mockingbirdq.livejournal.com]

The contents of the little boy's duffel sound like what you would find in my son's if he packed himself, except there would be a pair of panties, a stuffed guinea pig and some Power Rangers thrown in for good measure ;)

What rating is the film? I'm always looking for movies like this that don't have graphic sex to watch together as a family. It's one thing for me to tell my son that it is okay to love a man or a woman when he grows up, but another thing entirely to find movies that actually depict that that are suitable for children.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I believe you can see it without problem with your son... there is barely an hint of sexual relationship between the two man, there is only a scene where they are sitting together in bed, both to their side of the bed and the boy enters the room to ask something.

on IMDb they said: MPAA:Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some drug material and language.

The "drug material" is since the mother of the boy died of overdose.

Elisa