One Week
One Week features Vancouver’s Joshua Jackson the star of the successful paranormal series Fringe on the Fox Network, although here the non stop narrative makes it a bit more like Pushing Daisies. Co-starring is Toronto’s Liane Balaban (last seen in Last Chance Harvey and ironically again playing a bride to be) as his fiancée Samantha Pierce. Jackson plays Ben a Toronto teacher who has spent his short adult life settling rather than taking chances. When a cancer diagnosis announces that his adult life is about to get very short indeed he follows the “Go West” advice rolled up in the rim of his Timmy Ho’s double double cup. He buys a classic Norton motorcycle, leaves his baffled intended behind and sets out for parts not east. The sights he sees are a manifest of Canadiana but the touching part is the fallout from the lives he touches on his journey to Tofino. The story is moving in more ways than going from the world’s largest hockey stick to the world’s largest tee-pee and anyone watching would be hard pressed not to love this country after spending two hours with One Week.