Drama
Oh, Canada
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
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Top Cast
Richard Gere
Leo Fife
Uma Thurman
Emma / Gloria
Jacob Elordi
Young Leo Fife
Michael Imperioli
Malcolm
Victoria Hill
Diana
Caroline Dhavernas
Rene
Penelope Mitchell
Sloan Ambrose / Amy
Kristine Froseth
Alicia Fife
Directed by
Paul Schrader
Production
Arclight Films
Carte Blanche
One Two Twenty Entertainment
SIPUR
Northern Lights FilmsReviews
Brent Marchant
3/101/23/2025
It’s bad enough when a film disappoints and doesn’t live up to expectations. But what’s perhaps worse is when a picture not only fails to live up to expectations, but also validates the negative reputation that precedes it. Such is the case, regrettably, with the latest feature from filmmaker Paul Schrader, an embarrassingly bad production from an artist who has written and/or directed such masterful works as “First Reformed” (2017), “American Gigolo” (1980), “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” (1985), “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988) and “Taxi Driver” (1976). This miserably unfocused slog struggles to tell the story of Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), a famous but terminally ill director who’s being interviewed for a made-for-TV biography discussing his legendary life and career as a rev
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