The Drawer Boy (2017)

Name: The Drawer Boy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2017-10-25

1h 38m

Running Time

Plot.

Ontario - 1972. Miles, a young theatre actor from Toronto, arrives in Huron County at the home of Angus and Morgan, two aging bachelor farmers. Miles stays with the two farmers in order to gather stories about rural life and make a play abut it. All three of their lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.

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Cast & Crew.

Stuart Hughes

Angus

Richard Clarkin

Morgan

Courtney Lancaster

Sally (as Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster)

Sochi Fried

Frances

Jakob Ehman

Miles

Heidi Lynch

Anne

Claire Burns

Janet

Arturo Pérez Torres

Director / Writer / Producer

Aviva Armour-Ostroff

Producer

Michael Healey

Writer

Cabot McNenly

Cinematographer

Details.

Release Date
October 25, 2017

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 38m

Genres
Comedy Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-12

This Movie Is About.

stage play

Wiki.

The Drawer Boy is a Canadian drama film, which was directed by Arturo Pérez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff, and released in 2017. An adaptation of Michael Healey's play The Drawer Boy, the film stars Jakob Ehman as Miles, a young actor who takes a job as a labourer on a farm owned by lifelong friends Morgan (Richard Clarkin) and Angus (Stuart Hughes), but finds that his presence has a destabilizing effect on the men's friendship.

The film premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in 2017, and had its Canadian premiere at the Canadian Film Festival in 2018. At the Canadian Film Festival, it won the award for Best Feature Film.

At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, the film received nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Clarkin) and Best Screenplay (Pérez Torres). Clarkin won the award for Best Supporting Actor.