True Confections

True Confections
Directed byGail Singer
Written byGail Singer
Based onTrue Confections by Sondra Gotlieb
Release date
  • August 24, 1991 (1991-08-24)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

True Confections is a 1991 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gail Singer.[1] Based on Sondra Gotlieb's Stephen Leacock Award-winning novel True Confections, it stars Leslie Hope as Verna Miller, a young Jewish woman growing up in the 1950s who rebels against the rigid gender role assigned to women in her era due to her ahead-of-her-time sensibilities and life aspirations.[2]

Rather than a strict adaptation of Gotlieb's novel, Singer added some material to the screenplay that was more reflective of her own experiences in that era.[3]

The film's cast also includes Judah Katz, Chandra West, Jeff Pustil, Jill Riley, Stewart Bick and Daniel Kash.[4]

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1991,[4] and was screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals in September.[5] Singer's documentary film Wisecracks was also screened at the 1991 Festival of Festivals, making her the first filmmaker in the festival's history to have both a documentary and a narrative fiction film screened at the festival in the same year.[6]

  1. ^ "True confections: Sondra Gotlieb story embellished". Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 1991.
  2. ^ "Singer: Cracking wise and felling lies". Toronto Star, September 2, 1991.
  3. ^ "Film on Gotlieb book takes a few detours". Ottawa Citizen, August 24, 1991.
  4. ^ a b "True Confections shows there's more to Winnipeg than boys". Montreal Gazette, August 25, 1991.
  5. ^ "Festival Of Festivals fills in its open spaces". Toronto Star, August 21, 1991.
  6. ^ "Film-maker moves easily from comics to violence against women". Ottawa Citizen, April 13, 1995.