Four Days (1999 film)

Four Days
Directed byCurtis Wehrfritz
Written byPinckney Benedict
Based onFour Days by John Buell
Produced byGreg Dummett
Lorraine Richard
StarringKevin Zegers
Colm Meaney
Lolita Davidovich
CinematographyMirosław Baszak
Edited byGaétan Huot
Music byTom Third
Production
companies
Greg Dummett Films
Cité-Amérique
Distributed byBehaviour Distribution
Release date
  • September 12, 1999 (1999-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Four Days is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Curtis Wehrfritz and released in 1999.[1] The film stars Kevin Zegers as Simon, a teenage skateboarder who has been drawn into a bank robbery by his father Milt (William Forsythe). Milt and Simon have arranged to double-cross Milt's partner Fury (Colm Meaney) by having Simon take the money to a secluded cabin, which he does by hitching a ride from Crystal (Lolita Davidovich), a woman on the run from an abusive ex-husband; however, after Milt is shot and killed at the bank, his girlfriend Feather (Anne-Marie Cadieux) tips Fury off to Simon's whereabouts, and Fury begins to pursue them to recover the money.[2]

The supporting cast includes Patrick Goyette, John Dunn-Hill, Armand Laroche, Géraldine Doucet, Johnny Morina, Mario Janelle, Amanda Davis, Andrea Sheldon, Josée Larivière, Philip Pretten, Danielle Desormeaux and Pierre Lenoir, as well as Stephen Reid, himself a former bank robber, in a small role as a security guard at the bank.[3]

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 82.
  2. ^ Liam Lacey, "Good cast wasted on phony lowlife, faux grit". The Globe and Mail, November 12, 1999.
  3. ^ "Robber plays bank guard in debut". Nanaimo Daily News, September 22, 1999.