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| Directed by | Bruce LaBruce |
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| Story by | Bruce LaBruce |
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| Cinematography | Nicolas Canniccioni |
| Edited by | Glenn Berman |
| Music by | Ramachandra Borcar |
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| Distributed by | Filmoption International |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English French |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $80,000[1] |
Gerontophilia is a 2013 Canadian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Bruce LaBruce[2] and written by LaBruce and Daniel Allen Cox. The film had its world premiere in the Venice Days section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013,[3] and was screened in the Vanguard section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]
Described as a gay Harold and Maude,[2] the film follows Lake, a young man who takes a job in a nursing home and develops a romantic and sexual attraction to Mr. Peabody, an elderly resident in the facility. Unlike most of LaBruce's earlier films, Gerontophilia is not sexually explicit; instead, LaBruce chose to adapt his traditional themes of sexual taboo into a film more palatable to a mainstream audience.[5]
- ^ "Gerontophilia". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ a b "Bruce LaBruce's 'Gerontophilia' to Shoot This Summer Canada-Wide". The Hollywood Reporter, May 22, 2012.
- ^ "Gerontophilia". Venice Days. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
- ^ "Gerontophilia". TIFF. Archived from the original on August 17, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "Marie-Hélène Thibault et Pier-Gabriel Lajoie dans «Gerontophilia», un film de Bruce LaBruce tourné à Montréal". The Huffington Post, December 19, 2012.