Mass for Shut-Ins (2017)

Name: Mass for Shut-Ins
Released: 2017-10-02

1h 5m

Running Time

Plot.

Twentysomething Kay Jay sleeps on his grandfather Loppers’ couch. The computer’s on the fritz and there’s not much of anything to do; there’s a lot of sitting around, eating 5-cent candies and drinking pop. Bored, Kay Jay plays with fire, aimlessly wanders through the night, encounters strangers and gets hassled by September, his aggro delinquent brother. Chained to a life of co-dependency, he passively navigates his isolated existence—but you can see the desire to escape in his eyes.

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Cast & Crew.

Charles William McKenzie

Kay Jay

Joey Lee MacLean

Loppers

Stephen Melanson

September

John Lancleve

Zailynne Durant

Annie Marie Racki

Winston DeGiobbi

Director / Producer / Cinematography / Editor / Writer

Tyler DeGiobbi

Music

Winston De Giobbi

Director

Details.

Release Date
October 2, 2017

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 5m

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

Mass for Shut-Ins is a Canadian drama film, directed by Winston DeGiobbi and released in 2017. The film stars Charles William McKenzie as Kay Jay, an aimless slacker living with his grandfather Loppers (Joey Lee Maclean) in New Waterford, Nova Scotia and navigating his fraught relationship with his delinquent older brother September (Stephen Melanson).

The film premiered at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival. It screened alongside There Lived the Colliers, a short film by Nelson MacDonald documenting abandoned housing in Cape Breton Island.

It was shortlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award, and for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.