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Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy - 113 minutes

Log Line

A teenager who thinks he is the re-incarnation of Leon Trotsky enlists his fellow disenchanted high schoolers to help him establish a student union and take down their despotic principal.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2010 (Debut)
  • PUSAN 2010 (Line up)
  • AFM 2010 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Jacob TIERNEY
Writer(s) : Jacob TIERNEY
Cast : Jay BARUCHEL, Colm FEORE, Genevieve BUJOLD, Michael MURPHY, Saul RUBINEK, Jessica PARE, Emily HAMPSHIRE

Producer(s) : Kevin TIERNEY

Synopsis

Like most high schoolers, Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel, Tropic Thunder) is having an identity crisis. What differentiates Leon, however, is that he believes he is the reincarnation of Soviet thinker Leon Trotksy, predestined to follow the same path as his namesake. When sentenced to public school as punishment for staging a hunger strike in his father's factory, Leon just sees it as another step toward the fulfillment of his destiny. After all, teeming with Stalinesque authoritarians and throngs of budding individuals without a voice, what arena could be more apropos for social reinvention than high school? He quickly enlists a clan of disenchanted youth, and together they devise a plan to take down the dictator—er, principal—and restore the spirits of their teenage brethren.

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Country(ies) : CANADA

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