125 Rooms of Comfort
Appearance
125 Rooms of Comfort | |
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Directed by | Patrick Loubert |
Written by | Patrick Loubert Victor Coleman |
Starring | Tim Henry Jackie Burroughs Robert A. Silverman |
Cinematography | Henri Filks |
Edited by | Thomas Berner |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
125 Rooms of Comfort is a Canadian drama film, released in 1974.[1]
The film stars Tim Henry as Billie Joyce, a gay and transvestite former musician who has been institutionalized in an asylum due to mental illness. Inheriting the smalltown hotel formerly owned by his deceased father, he returns home intending to sell the hotel to real estate developer Oscar Kidd (Robert A. Silverman), but soon finds himself in the position of defending the rights of the hotel's staff against Kidd's renovation plans. The film's cast also includes Robert Warner, Sean Sullivan and Jackie Burroughs.
The film was a nominee for Best Picture at the Canadian Film Awards in 1975, but did not win.[2]
References
- ^ Waugh, Thomas, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Carleton University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0773530690. pp. 420-421.
- ^ "Competing as Canada's best". The Globe and Mail, October 9, 1975.