![]() They argue their way through schemes they have to beg, borrow or steal (but mainly steal). But it is not easy for a quarrelling couple who hate each other so much to bring in $49 for the train fare to Brockville. They eventually decide to get enough cash to go to Brockville to to get out of Toronro and take over the house in Brockville currently occupied by Lacie’s grandmother so that they can live there. ![]() When things do not work out, they do still hang around, creating a hate love but mainly hate relationship. ![]() She promises him a hand job for a few bucks that he fools her that he has. One day, while smoking the remnants of a cigarette he picked up off the street, he meets Lacie (Tommie-Amber Pirie), a hooker still wearing the hospital gown she was given when she was treated for a drug overdose. Owen (Aaron Abrams) is a social non-starter, jobless, homeless, reduced to sleeping on a mattress in the boiler room of his disgruntled brother Kevin’s bar, and down to his last five dollars. ![]() It was always written for Aaron to star, and we were lucky to get Tommie-Amber Pirie, who brought her cuss-filled A-game every day. “After years of people loving it but saying the project was too risky, it was passed along to producer Jordan Walker, who loves edgy material, and he passed it along to me. “Our writers, Aaron Abrams and Brendan Gall, first started writing this as a pissing contest to see who could make the other laugh the hardest,” says director LaLonde (How To Plan An Orgy In A Small Town, Baroness von Sketch Show). Well, life can be so, but a nasty movie is normally not taken in as well by audiences that feel good crowd pleasers.Īccording to the press notes, this is the genesis of how it all began. The Go-Getters is now playing in limited release at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto.Ī version of this review was originally published during the 2018 Canadian Film Fest.THE GO-GETTERS is a pretty nasty movie. Also watch out for brief cameos from other Canadian indie stars, including Jonas Chernick and Ennis Esmer. It’s carried by a pair of go-for-broke performances from Aaron Abrams and Tommie-Amber Pirie, who throw themselves into the premise and completely run with it. The simplistic nature of the plot allows for plenty of hijinks throughout the brisk eighty minute running time, and the film plays with a mix of quirky character humour and cringe comedy, including a gross but shockingly hilarious scene involving a DIY glory hole. The result is a wild, ribald, and often unpredictable mismatched buddy comedy, that I found quite entertaining to watch unfold. Despite butting heads, Owen and Lacie are spurred on by their shared hatred of Toronto, and hatch a plan to go live at her grandma’s rundown home in Brockville, which they plan to fix up.īut they don’t have any money between them, so they start coming up with a variety of hair-brained schemes in an attempt to make some quick cash, desperately trying to track down the $98 that they need for bus tickets. The former is a drunkard living in the boiler room of his brother’s (Kristian Bruun) bar, and the latter a drug-addicted hooker whom he first encounters passed out on the bathroom floor. The latest from Canadian director Jeremy LaLonde, The Go-Getters is a dirty and raunchy low-budget comedy that follows Owen (Aaron Abrams) and Lacie (Tommie-Amber Pirie).
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