Opening Night Gala: Breakfast with Scot

(Canada, 2007, 95 mins)

35mm

Directed By: Laurie Lynd

SCR: Sean Reycraft

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We are thrilled to open Outfest 2008 with this wonderfully funny, enormously heartwarming tale about a makeshift family engaged in a struggle over pucks and perfume. Blending ice hockey, family drama and plenty of singing, BREAKFAST WITH SCOT smacks it out of the rink!

Eric, played by Tom Cavanagh (“Ed”), lives for all things hockey. Now he’s managed to turn his stint as a Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as a TV sports commentator. His boyfriend Sam, played by Ben Shenkman (ANGELS IN AMERICA) is a corporate lawyer. They live a fairly closeted life on a tree-lined street in Toronto. When Sam announces that they’re to become temporary guardians of a recently orphaned, 11-year-old boy named Scot, their comfortable world falls through the ice. Scot is everything that Eric and Sam are not - he has a penchant for feather boas, rose hand cream, Christmas carols and all that glitters. In an effort to toughen him up, Eric enrolls Scot in Pee Wee Hockey - and gets roped into being assistant coach - a job that is more than he bargained for.


Expertly directed by Laurie Lynd, based on the award-winning book by Michael Downing, this poignant film wraps tough issues of parenthood, relationships and masculinity in a blanket of comedy that will make you laugh, cry and laugh some more.

- Kirsten Schaffer, Interim Executive Director

Outfest 2008 introduced by: Margaret Cho

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