Going the Distance
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| Going the Distance | |
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| Directed by | Mark Griffiths |
| Produced by | Stephen Hegyes Shawn Williamson |
| Written by | Eric Goodman Kelly Senecal |
| Starring | Christopher Jacot Joanne Kelly Shawn Roberts Mayko Nguyen Ryan Belleville Katheryn Winnick August Schellenberg and Jason Priestley |
| Music by | Patric Caird |
| Distributed by | Seville Pictures (Canada) |
| Release date(s) | August 20, 2004 (Canada) |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
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Going the Distance is a 2004 Canadian teen/comedy film directed by Mark Griffiths, and written by Eric Goodman and Kelly Senecal. A road movie set across Canada, its tagline was They came. They saw. They came.
Produced by Brightlight Pictures and the first film underwritten in part by MuchMusic, Going the Distance was a brand extension for the music television channel and a foray into theatrical feature films by MuchMusic's corporate parent CHUM Limited.
Recent changes to Telefilm Canada funding rewarded the producers of domestic films that were commercial successes in English Canada, and Going the Distance was a bid for such success. Released at the same time as Without a Paddle, a Hollywood movie attracting the same male-skewing teen comedy demographic, Going the Distance performed much more poorly at the Canadian box office in spite of wide promotion, and was considered a box office bomb.
[edit] Plot summary
Nick (Jacot), whose life seemed to be going perfectly, realizes he may lose his girlfriend to a famous music producer (Priestley). He sets out on a roadtrip from the west coast to go to the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, along with two buddies, for the road trip of their lives.
[edit] Main cast
- Christopher Jacot ... as Nick
- Shawn Roberts ... as Tyler
- Ryan Belleville ... as Dime
- Jason Priestley ... as Swackhammer
- Joanne Kelly ... as Sasha
- Mayko Nguyen ... as Jill
- Avril Lavigne
- Gob (band)
- Matt Frewer
- Prevail
- George Stroumboulopoulos
- Iris Graham
- Swollen Members
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