The Drawer Boy (film)

The Drawer Boy
Directed byArturo Pérez Torres
Aviva Armour-Ostroff
Written byArturo Pérez Torres
Based onThe Drawer Boy by Michael Healey
Produced byArturo Pérez Torres
Aviva Armour-Ostroff
StarringJakob Ehman
Richard Clarkin
Stuart Hughes
CinematographyCabot McNenly
Music byBob Wiseman
Release date
  • July 1, 2017 (2017-07-01)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Drawer Boy is a Canadian drama film, which was directed by Arturo Pérez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff, and released in 2017.[1] An adaptation of Michael Healey's play The Drawer Boy, the film stars Jakob Ehman as Miles, a young actor who takes a job as a labourer on a farm owned by lifelong friends Morgan (Richard Clarkin) and Angus (Stuart Hughes), but finds that his presence has a destabilizing effect on the men's friendship.

The film premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in 2017,[2] and had its Canadian premiere at the Canadian Film Festival in 2018.[3] At the Canadian Film Festival, it won the award for Best Feature Film.

At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, the film received nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Clarkin) and Best Screenplay (Pérez Torres).[4] Clarkin won the award for Best Supporting Actor.[5]

  1. ^ "Review: The Drawer Boy is a moving adaptation of the seminal play". Now, November 22, 2018.
  2. ^ "Heartland Film Festival: 'The Drawer Boy' is a charming tale of truth and friendship". The Ball State Daily News, October 25, 2017.
  3. ^ "The Drawer Boy's film adaptation does the stage play justice". Now, March 15, 2018.
  4. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards 2019: English-Canadian films shut out of best picture category". Now, February 7, 2019.
  5. ^ "Les Québécois remportent plus de la moitié des trophées à l'avant-gala des prix Écrans canadiens". Ici Radio-Canada, March 31, 2019.