A hustler's love is the foundation his mother keeps demolishing.
Mother-son relationship is strained to the breaking point when a young architecture student gives up his studies to support himself and his alcoholic mother by hustling.
Acting
Nancy Beatty's wrecked maternal ferocity.
Direction
Atkins squeezes a feature's worth of ache into 23 minutes.
Director
Greg Atkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early-2000s Canadian shorts exploring queer economic precarity rarely seen in American indie cinema.
Director Greg Atkins also plays Crete; the casting choice blurs autobiography with fiction in ways the film never clarifies.
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