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Poor Boy's Game | |
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Directed by | Clement Virgo |
Written by | Clement Virgo Chaz Thorne |
Produced by | Clement Virgo Chaz Thorne Damon D'Oliveira |
Starring | Rossif Sutherland Danny Glover Flex Alexander |
Cinematography | Luc Montpellier |
Edited by | Susan Maggi |
Music by | Byron Wong |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Budget | $5.5 Million |
Poor Boy's Game is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Clement Virgo. Co-written with Nova Scotian writer/director Chaz Thorne (Just Buried), it is the story of class struggle, racial tensions, and boxing, set in the Canadian east coast port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film premiered on February 11, 2007, at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie stars Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland, Greg Bryk, Flex Alexander and Laura Regan.
Poor Boy's Game opened in Halifax cinemas on November 9, 2007.
In 2023, Telefilm Canada announced that the film was one of 23 titles that will be digitally restored under its new Canadian Cinema Reignited program to preserve classic Canadian films.[1]