Coconut Hero (2015)
The story of Mike Tyson... not the boxer.
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself. To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital. During a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his brain. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike's point of view and he re-evaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda. Somebody seems to understand him after all.
- Date of release
- 2015-08-13
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (67)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Florian Cossen
Casting
- Alex Ozerov-Meyer — Mike Tyson
- Bea Santos — Miranda
- Krista Bridges — Cynthia Tyson
- Sebastian Schipper — Frank Burger
- Udo Kier — Mr. Morrow
- Jim Annan — Pastor
Interesting facts
Coconut Hero is a German-Canadian comedy film directed by Florian Cossen and released in 2015. Coconut Hero premiered on March 18, 2015 at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto where it screened for two consecutive weeks. Following its premiere, on March 25, Coconut Hero was shown for one week in Ottawa's ByTowne Cinema.
Production
The director, Florian Cossen, is a German-Canadian and pays homage to a large portion of his youth spent in a small Canadian city by filming Coconut Hero within Canada in a similarly small town. Coconut Hero was filmed in 2014 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a town in northern Ontario. The filming of Coconut Hero also took the cast to Germany for two days, after spending six weeks in Sault Ste. Marie.
The film is a German-Canadian co-production from Toronto's Six Island Productions and Germany-based UFA Fiction. Search Engine Films out of Toronto distributed the movie out of Canada.
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