Perfectly Normal (1991)

A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.

Data di uscita
1991-04-12
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (5)
Durata
1 h 47 min
Generi
Commedia, Musica, Romance
Regista
Yves Simoneau

Cast

Curiosità

Perfectly Normal is a Canadian comedy film directed by Yves Simoneau, which premiered at the 1990 Festival of Festivals, before going into general theatrical release in 1991. Simoneau's first English-language film, it was written by Eugene Lipinski and Paul Quarrington.

Production

Eugene Lipinski stated that Renzo was based on his own life. He wrote the first draft while on vacation in Portugal for two weeks in 1987. He showed the script to potential backers while pretending to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. Multiple people were interested in supporting the film and Lipinski selected Michael Burns. Burns stated that Lipinski's idea for the film "really did sing", but that the script was "basically gibberish".

Telefilm Canada contributed funding to the script's development due to a noncommittal letter of distribution interest from Cineplex Odeon Films. The Ontario Film Development Corporation initially gave $10,000 in July 1988, and later another $25,000.

Burns had Paul Quarrington write the second draft. Quarrington suggested that Robbie Coltrane play the lead character. Burns asked his friend Harry Ditson to show Quarrington's draft to Coltrane. Coltrane accepted the role and was paid $180,000 for seven weeks of shooting. Quarrington stated that he did not "think anything, really, survived" from Lipinski's original version.

Burns interviewed fifteen to twenty people for the position of director. He wanted Phillip Borsos to direct, but Burns changed his mind after a bad meeting with Borsos. Burns was divided between John Paizs and Yves Simoneau. He liked Paizs's comedic sense, but he was inexperienced and Simoneau was "a born movie director", but had never directed an English-language film. He selected Simoneau, who was paid $125,000.

The film had a budget of $3.775 million making it the most expensive Canadian film of 1990. The budget had $1.5 million in contributions from Telefilm, $750,000 from British equity, $725,000 from the OFDC, $425,000 from private investors, $350,000 from Alliance Films, and $25,000 in deferrals.

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