How to Be Deadly

How to Be Deadly
Film poster
Directed byNik Sexton
Written byNik Sexton
Edward Riche
Produced byMary Sexton
StarringLeon Parsons
Gina Squires
CinematographySam Pryse-Phillips
Edited byMiles Davren
Music byColin Kelday
Production
company
Rink Rat Productions
Distributed byUnion Pictures
Release date
  • September 12, 2014 (2014-09-12) (AIFF)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

How to Be Deadly is a 2014 Canadian comedy film, directed by Nik Sexton. The film stars Leon Parsons as Donnie Dumphy, an unemployed slacker in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, who enters a minibike competition in the hopes of winning back his ex-girlfriend Brenda (Gina Squires) after she breaks up with him due to his lack of ambition.[1]

The cast also includes Ashley Billard, Dan Bochart, Robbie Carruthers, Kate Corbett, Sean Dalton, Lisa Doucette, Dominique Girouard, Annie Hennessey, Andy Jones, Cathy Jones, Dennis Kavanah, Susan Kent, Greg Malone, Mary Walsh, Andrew Younghusband and Rick Mercer in supporting roles.

The film premiered at the 2014 Atlantic International Film Festival,[2] and went into commercial release in 2015.[3]

  1. ^ Peter Simpson, "Review: Donnie Dumphy film rated 'deadly' out of 10". Ottawa Citizen, September 22, 2015.
  2. ^ "Kaleidoscope of region's film". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "Donnie Dumphy creatives teach us How To Be Deadly". Q, August 27, 2015.