When a beautiful and mysterious woman bursts into the office of Leo Falloon, desperate to find her missing brother, it's just another day in the life of a hard-boiled detective. The problem is, Leo's not a detective. He sells novelty advertising across the hall from the detective, but how hard can it be?
Acting
Brent Butt's deadpan panic is genuinely skilled physical comedy.
Writing
Self-aware noir parody that knows it's too clever for its budget.
Director
Carl Bessai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brent Butt wrote this specifically to break out of Brent Leroy typecasting, then made him almost identical anyway. The audacity.
This is essentially Canadian Shane Black: Vancouver standing in for nowhere, self-aware about its own mediocrity, funded by tax credits and dreams.
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