Dead Wrong (film)

Dead Wrong
Directed byLen Kowalewich
Written byRon Graham
Produced byLen Kowalewich
StarringWinston Rekert
Britt Ekland
CinematographyDoug McKay
Edited byJana Fritsch
Music byKarl Kobylansky
Production
companies
Heritage
Sounder Productions
Release date
  • December 26, 1983 (1983-12-26)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Dead Wrong is a Canadian crime thriller film, directed by Len Kowalewich and released in 1983.[1] The film stars Winston Rekert as Sean Phelan, a financially struggling fisherman who agrees to smuggle marijuana into Canada aboard his boat, and Britt Ekland as Penny Lancaster, an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who joins his crew in an attempt to catch and arrest him, but finds herself falling in love with him.[2]

The cast also includes Dale Wilson, Jackson Davies and Alex Diakun.

The film received two Genie Award nominations at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, for Best Cinematography (Doug McKay) and Best Original Score (Karl Kobylansky).[3]

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 56.
  2. ^ Michael Walsh, "Drug Double-Dealing: So Canadian to play cops for laughs". The Province, December 30, 1983.
  3. ^ Jay Scott, "11 nominations for Chapdelaine in Genie race". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1984.