Pale Saints (film)

Pale Saints
Directed byJoel Wyner
Written byJoel Wyner
Produced byIlana Frank
StarringSean Patrick Flanery
Michael Riley
Saul Rubinek
Rachael Crawford
CinematographyBarry Stone
Edited byNick Rotundo
Music byIan Thomas
Production
companies
Frequency Films
Telefilm Canada
Distributed byNew Films International
Norstar Entertainment
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesCanada
United States
LanguageEnglish

Pale Saints is a 1997 American-Canadian crime film, written and directed by Joel Wyner.[1] The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Louis and Michael Riley as Dody, small-time thugs trying to gain acceptance with an organized crime group by driving to Toronto for a crime job that goes catastrophically wrong.[2]

The film's cast also includes Saul Rubinek, Rachael Crawford, Maury Chaykin, Gordon Pinsent, Jason Blicker, Julian Richings, Hardee T. Lineham and Patrick Gallagher.

The film received five Genie Award nominations at the 19th Genie Awards, for Best Director (Wyner), Best Supporting Actor (2: Riley, Rubinek), Best Supporting Actress (Crawford) and Best Costume Design (Tamara Winston).[3]

References

  1. ^ "Pale Saints". Toronto Star, October 9, 1998.
  2. ^ "Anatomy of a movie". Toronto Star, October 6, 1996.
  3. ^ "Two films lead Genie pack with 12 nominations each [Last Night and Such a Long Journey]". Canadian Press, December 7, 1998.


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