Ah. Free movies.
When we lived in London there were so many free movie screening tickets available if you knew where on the internet to look, that we pretty much saw one every week. Sadly they’re somewhat thinner on the ground over here in Melbourne, but there’s still the odd one every now and again. Tonight it was Barney’s Version, a bittersweet tale of the “fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky”, played by the always excellent Paul Giamatti.
I mention this only because, when I turned to the internet to check something, I was highly amused by the IMDb’s page on the film.
Just look at that cast list:
They’ve really summarised the most important people in the film there, haven’t they: “Productions Executive #1”, “Judge at Rome Wedding”, and who could forget the pivotal role that “O’Malley Director #1” plays in the story.
At least they did remember to include Mr Giamatti in the cast list, even if they forgot to list Dustin Hoffman and Rosamund Pike (who just played really minor characters like, um, his father and the love of his life…)
But nevermind, the cast list did actually answer the question that sent me to the internets in the first place: there in third place was the answer to my question. Yes that guy who appeared for a split second playing a Mountie in the rubbish TV show that Barney produces was indeed Paul Gross, him off of 90s Canadian Mountie-themed drama Due South…
Perhaps they’ve listed the characters in terms of relative fame instead of importance in the movie. Even so, I would expect Atom Egoyan to plump Paul Gross. (sorry, bit late with this comment)