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Niagara Motel
Directed byGary Yates
Written byDani Romain
George F. Walker
Produced byPhyllis Laing
Michael Prupas
Bernard Zukerman
StarringCaroline Dhavernas
Craig Ferguson
Anna Friel
CinematographyIan Wilson
Edited bySimon Cozens
Music byGuy Fletcher
The Lyric Quartet
Distributed byMongrel Media (Canada)
Soda Pictures (United Kingdom)
Release date
March 24, 2006 (2006-03-24)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8,000,000

Niagara Motel is a 2006 Canadian drama film directed by Gary Yates. It was adapted by George F. Walker from Suburban Motel his series of six plays. The film earned numerous nominations, including a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for Caroline Dhavernas.

Plot

Niagara Motel features its namesake and the ongoings amongst the inhabitants of the motel and linked Riverside Grill coffee shop located in Niagara Falls. The characters include the owner and his daughter (Andrei and Fitch), their newly pregnant waitress (Dhavernas) being recruited to star in low budget porn videos, a young couple (Friel and Holden-Reid) with a criminal past struggling to recover their child from social services, and a middle class husband and wife (Keleghan and Crewson) in a marriage that is disintegrating in near-record time - all led by a drunken motel caretaker (Ferguson).

Cast

Locations

While some scenes were filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario, most of the film was filmed in and around Winnipeg, Manitoba. The motel scenes were filmed in Steinbach. Additional scenes were filmed in Lockport and Selkirk, where the real Riverside Grill stood until 2012.[1][2]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 36% based on 14 reviews, with an average score of 4.96/10.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Niagara Motel Production Notes" (PDF). Mongrel Media. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
  2. ^ Amanda Lefley (2012-01-10). "Say Goodbye to Riverside". The Selkirk Journal. Retrieved 2014-11-30.
  3. ^ Niagara Motel at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2019-10-01.