| This Beautiful City | |
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| Directed by | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| Written by | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| Produced by | Ed Gass-Donnelly Lee Kim Aaron Poole David Krae Julie Sype |
| Starring | Aaron Poole Kristin Booth Caroline Cave Noam Jenkins Stuart Hughes |
| Cinematography | Micha Dahan |
| Edited by | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| Distributed by | 20/40 Films |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
This Beautiful City is a 2007 Canadian drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Ed Gass-Donnelly. It premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and had a general theatrical release in 2008.
The film depicts the lives of five disparate characters in Downtown Toronto. Johnny (Aaron Poole) is a recovering crack cocaine addict trying to convince his prostitute girlfriend Pretty (Kristin Booth) to move with him to a new city so they can make a clean break from their old lives, while Harry (Noam Jenkins) and Carol (Caroline Cave) are a wealthy couple. Events are set in motion when Carol falls from the balcony of her condo in an apparent suicide attempt, landing just metres away from Johnny and Pretty in the alleyway below. She survives, but Peter (Stuart Hughes), a police detective, finds her and the group's lives begin to intertwine.