| Big News from Grand Rock | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Daniel Perlmutter |
| Written by | Daniel Perlmutter |
| Produced by | Michael McNamara |
| Starring | Ennis Esmer Meredith MacNeill Aaron Ashmore |
| Cinematography | Samy Inayeh |
| Edited by | Roderick Deogrades |
| Music by | Andre Ethier Sandro Perri |
Production company | Markham Street Films |
| Distributed by | Capital Motion Picture Group |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Big News from Grand Rock is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Daniel Perlmutter and released in 2014.[1]
The film stars Ennis Esmer as Leonard Crane, a journalist for the community newspaper in the small town of Grand Rock. Faced with declining readership and the threat of the paper being sold off by owner Stan (Gordon Pinsent), he tries to save the paper's fortunes by writing fabricated news stories inspired by old movies suggested to him by the owner of the local video rental store (Aaron Ashmore), which works until Lucy (Meredith MacNeill), a journalist from the big city, arrives to investigate after he turns the 1996 thriller Extreme Measures into a story about secret medical experiments being conducted in Grand Rock.[2]
The cast also includes Kristin Booth, Tammy Isbell and Peter Keleghan as colleagues of Leonard's at the paper, Leah Pinsent as Grand Rock's mayor Jane Davis, and Art Hindle, David Reale, Josette Halpert, Ryan Worthing, Lorna Wright, Darcy Gerhart, Darcy Campbell, Shauna Bailey and Joyce Cyr in supporting roles.