Borderline Normal

I was conned into seeing this film at the World Festival in Montreal last fall and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting your run-of-the-mill made-for-cable family drama (you know, cheesy and contrived...) BUT this was much better than that, a funny and strangely touching love story about two kids trying to make sense of their world. And some great performances (Caterina Scorsone is amazing...who on earth is she???) definitely make this one worth checking out.

I tuned into this film on a lazy Sunday afternoon, & was quite surprised by it. Normally I'm a bit skeptical about some of these Canadian films we put out, but Borderline Normal was truly a refreshing change.

The story is good, the acting is good overall, especially Catarina Scorsone. Her performance is absolutely smashing. Hopefully she'll get some more recognition in the future. She was also in The Third Miracle, and for the small role she played, she was very convincing.

It's worth checking out(I saw it on TMN)if you can find it. And true to my Canadian roots, if it's good and we helped make it, I'll plug it as best I can.

Bravo.

Being a Canadian, I was finally proud to sit down and watch a movie with good acting, and a good story. Catarina Scorsone was fabulous! Corbin Bernsen and Robin Dunne are good too in this charming, wonderful little film. I am not sure if you can get it at a video store. It was on TMN (HBO equivalent) here in Canada. Well done!

This film deserves SO much more recognition. It may not be a big hollywood hit but it is well made, the actings terrific, the plot is captivating, and the story is touching - and relatable for many. It shows the stereotypes americans and canadians have for eachother in a funny yet well crafted way. Im so so deeply upset that this film isn't more popular because it's genuinely one of my favourite films, and this is coming from a film studies a level student, who got an A*. I really hope that this film gains more recognition soon - although i doubt it - because its so incredible. Its one of my comfort movies and i share it with everyone i meet.

Borderline normal is a coming of age drama about two sons whose parents split up and how in particular this affects the younger son.

This is a strange film in many ways, it features some hard hitting drama but also some strange characters. It has a relatively high profile cast with decent actors like Corbin Bernsen, Stephanie Zimbalist and Michael Ironside who provide excellent support. Unfortunately I found the performance of the lead Robin Dunne a little wooden but this is offset by a great performance by Caterina Scorsone as his girlfriend.

There are some excellent scenes here but these are interspersed with scenes that seem out of place and amateurish. This really is a bit of a mish mash and it's a shame as this had the potential to be really good film.

For all it's annoying faults this is never dull and is pretty entertaining.