Paint Cans (1994)
The characters and events portrayed in this film are purely fictitious. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintended. Any resemblance to any institutions, however, is another thing altogether.
A Canadian take on The Player.
- Date of release
- 1994-09-13
- TMDB
- 4.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Paul Donovan
Casting
- Chas Lawther — Wick Burns
- Martha Burns — Melda
- Bruce Greenwood — Vittorio Musso
- Andy Jones — Neville Lewis
- Paul Gross — Morton Ridgewell
- Ann-Marie MacDonald — Inge Von Nerthus
- Neve Campbell — Tristesse
- Don Francks — Maitland Burns
- Michael McManus — Jeff
- Lex Gigeroff — Oliver
- Nigel Bennett — Bryson Vautour
Interesting facts
Paint Cans is a 1994 Canadian comedy film written, produced and directed by Paul Donovan and based on his book of the same name. A satire of Canadian film and television production, the film stars Chas Lawther as Wick Burns, a bureaucrat in the Film Finance Office of Canada who is trying to help secure funding for Paint Cans, the directorial debut of his film school classmate Vittorio Russo, while simultaneously trying to navigate a new romantic relationship with Arundel Merton, a journalist he met at the Cannes Film Festival.
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