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Normal

Normal was filmed on Southern Vancouver Island with Oak Bay standing in for any upscale seaside WASP ghetto that you might want to name. A cast of local a-list actors portray an ensemble of characters that seem to be unrelated but actually have a teen vehicular fatality in common. Oh yeah, and not one of them is anywhere near normal. Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss is an obsessive compulsive mom whose perfect son perished in the accident with Victoria’s young big screen veteran Cameron Bright as her neglected other son. The latest magazine boy toy Kevin Zegers is a troubled teen with attitude just out of Juvie Hall and having an affair with his step mother played by Camille Sullivan. Callum Keith Rennie is an alcohol abusing college professor whose marriage is a shambles and whose writing career has stalled. When he’s not hand holding his autistic brother he’s sleeping with Lauren Lee Smith as his painfully inquisitive student. This all sounds pretty hot but really, despite fine performances all around we don’t get enough insight into their characters to care much about them. The only thing normal about Normal is the pat Hollywood tricks used to allegedly satisfy the inherent conflicts.

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