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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Theatrical poster
Directed byMike Clattenburg
Screenplay byMike Clattenburg
Robb Wells
Based onTrailer Park Boys
by Mike Clattenburg
Produced byMike Clattenburg
Ivan Reitman (executive producer)
StarringRobb Wells
John Paul Tremblay
Mike Smith
CinematographyMiroslaw Baszak
Edited byJeremy Harty
Music byBlain Morris
Production
companies
Odeon Films
Cavu Pictures
Showcase Original Movie
Topsail Entertainment
Trailer Park Productions
The Montecito Picture Company
Distributed byAlliance Atlantis
Release date
  • October 6, 2006 (2006-10-06)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million
Box office$3,868,567[1]

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, also known as Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty and simply Trailer Park Boys, is a 2006 Canadian crime dark comedy film based on the television series Trailer Park Boys. The film follows characters Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles creating a plan for the Big Dirty, one last crime that will enable them to retire from their criminal lives. The film, like the series, was directed and produced by Mike Clattenburg, with Ivan Reitman as an executive producer. It was released in Canada on October 6, 2006, and a limited release in the United States began on January 25, 2008. It has developed into a cult film since then.[2]

Plot

Julian (John Paul Tremblay) plans to steal money from an automated teller machine (ATM). He gets his two best friends, Ricky (Robb Wells) and Bubbles (Mike Smith), to help him succeed in the operation and get rich. However, the plan does not go according to plan and they are chased by the police. Bubbles runs off and is spared by the cops, while Ricky and Julian are arrested and get sent to jail for an 18-month term.

Donny (Gerry Dee), the jail instructor, kicks Ricky and Julian out of jail 26 days early to prevent Ricky from playing goalie for a rival team, giving Donny and his team a chance to win an upcoming jail street-hockey tournament. Ricky and Julian are picked up by Bubbles and Ricky's father, Ray (Barrie Dunn), and brought back to Sunnyvale Trailer Park, only to be greeted by the trailer-park supervisor Jim Lahey (John Dunsworth) and his shirtless, cheeseburger-loving assistant, Randy (Patrick Roach).

Ricky decides to get back with his girlfriend Lucy (Lucy DeCoutere) and become a better father to his daughter, Trinity. However, Ricky learns from Lucy's friend Sarah (Sarah Dunsworth) that Lucy has a new job at a strip club and she also got new breast implants and her boss, Sonny (Hugh Dillon) (the owner of the club) is a dangerous man. After leaving the strip club, the boys decide to do the "Big Dirty", a crime that will allow them to retire from their criminal lives.

Julian and his new girlfriend, Wanda (Nichole Hiltz), go to the movies on their first date. While waiting in the snack line, Julian sees a money machine filled with change and believes he has found the "Big Dirty" and informs Ricky and Bubbles of the plan.

Ricky returns to the strip club and discovers that Lucy and Sonny have had sex 28 times, enraging Ricky and forcing him to leave. As a party at J-Roc (Jonathan Torrens)'s trailer ensues back at the park, Ricky listens to April Wine as Lucy arrives and says that it was a lie and she only had sex with Sonny five or six times. Ricky proposes to Lucy at J-Roc's party and she says yes, she then proceeds to get drunk and flash the entire crowd at the party.

Lahey, in the area to post a condemned notice, destroys Bubbles' shed and lies to trailer-park owner Barb Lahey (Shelley Thompson) that Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles' lot fees are three months unpaid, and after police intervene in a scuffle, they accept they must vacate in 30 days. To keep themselves in Sunnyvale, the boys decide to do the Big Dirty at the movie theatre, but things go wrong when Julian's cohorts Cory (Cory Bowles) and Trevor (Michael Jackson) pull the fire alarm. Rick and Julian succeed in escaping, and take the money from the machine, thus accomplishing their mission.

At Ricky and Lucy's wedding, Sonny confronts them both with a handgun and shoots at Ricky's car, causing the money to fall out through the bullet holes in the trunk. Police officers George Green and Ted Johnston arrest Sonny and Wanda and leave, but Lahey sees the money falling out of the car and tries to chase the boys to capture them. Lahey and Randy flip their car and the cops crash into Ricky's car, causing the money to fly out.

In court, Ricky demands Lahey should use a breathalyzer to see if Lahey is drunk or not and prove his testimony worthless. Lahey is revealed to be drunk and the boys are proclaimed innocent by the judge. The prosecutor also remarks that since no evidence indicates the money was taken illegally, he grants that the money will be returned to the boys. A victorious Ricky tells off Lahey, but this causes the prosecutor to threaten to put Ricky in jail for a week for his foul behaviour. Ricky then asks Lucy and Trinity if they mind that he returns to jail for a short time, which they approve, leading Rick to tell off the entire court and he is arrested and sentenced to one week in jail, allowing him to play in the hockey tournament along with Cory and Trevor. The team succeeds in winning and beating Donny's team, and Cory and Trevor become the toast of the prison after "pantsing" Donny in front of everyone, embarrassing him and gaining them popularity among the other prisoners.

Cast

Main article: List of Trailer Park Boys characters
Actor Role
Robb Wells Ricky
John Paul Tremblay Julian
Mike Smith Bubbles
John Dunsworth Jim Lahey
Patrick Roach Randy
Jonathan Torrens J-Roc
Cory Bowles Cory
Michael Jackson Trevor
Lucy DeCoutere Lucy
Sarah E. Dunsworth Sarah
Barrie Dunn Ray
Lydia Lawson-Baird Trinity
Nichole Hiltz Wanda
Gerry Dee Donny
Hugh Dillon Sonny
Alex Lifeson Cop #1
Gord Downie Cop #2
Scotty Mars Bouncer
Eugene Clark Cadillac

Reception

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie has received mixed to positive reviews. The movie holds a 55% rating, based on 22 critics' reviews, on Rotten Tomatoes.[3]

Box office

Trailer Park Boys was the highest-grossing movie in Canada for its first weekend in release October 7–8, 2006. The movie grossed an estimated $1.3 million at the box office in its opening weekend becoming the 11th top-grossing film in North America for that weekend. It had a per-screen average of $6,632 over the three-day weekend, and played on over 200 screens.[4] As of November 19, 2006, the film had grossed $3.87 million.[5]

Awards and recognition

The movie was nominated in three categories for the 27th Genie Awards in 2007:

  • Best Motion Picture
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Hugh Dillon)
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

Soundtrack

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Soundtrack album
ReleasedOctober 10, 2006
GenreSoundtrack
LabelAnthem
  1. "Big Dirty Drums"
  2. "I Fought the Law" covered by The Big Dirty Band (original composition by Sonny Curtis and The Crickets)
  3. "38 Years Old" by The Tragically Hip
  4. "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush
  5. "Scared" by The Tragically Hip
  6. "Trailer Park Life" by J-Roc
  7. "Credulence"
  8. "Sweet Leaf" covered by Alexisonfire (original composition by Black Sabbath)
  9. "All Touch" by Rough Trade
  10. "Shithawks"
  11. "I'm on Fire for You Baby" covered by April Wine (original composition by David Elliott)
  12. "Bobcaygeon" by The Tragically Hip
  13. "Orca" by Wintersleep
  14. "Swamp Water" by Swollen Members
  15. "Ricky's Day in Court"
  16. "Liquor & Whores" by Bubbles & The Shit Rockers
  17. "Heavy Metal Love" by Helix

DVD release

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie is available in Canada on DVD. It was released on February 20, 2007.[6]

Sequels

Main article: Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day

On August 27, 2008, it was announced by Alliance Films that there was a second TPB movie being filmed. The movie, titled "Countdown To Liquor Day", is a continuation of the final TPB special, "Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys". The film was released in theaters on September 25, 2009. The third and final film in the franchise "Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize it!" was released on April 18, 2014.

References

  1. ^ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=trailerparkboys.htm
  2. ^ http://trailerparkboysusa.com
  3. ^ Trailer Park Boys: The Movie at Rotten Tomatoes
  4. ^ "Trailer Park Boys: The Movie tops Canadian box office". Sootoday.com. Retrieved 15 October 2006.
  5. ^ Playback :: Death of a President survives in Canada
  6. ^ Amazon.ca: Trailer Park Boys: The Movie: DVD: Mike Clattenburg,Shelley Thompson,Hugh Dillon,Michael Jackson,Jonathan Torrens,John Dunsworth,Lucy DeCoutere,Sarah Dunsworth,Cory Bowles,John Paul Tremblay,Mike Smith,Robb Wells,Barrie Dunn,Patrick Roach
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