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Synopsis: Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him. In bits and pieces, we see what leads up to her riding in the back of a city bus wrapped in a shower curtain. Coming of age, or just surviving?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Bruce McDonald
Production: ThinkFilm
  6 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
R
Year:
2007
77 min
Website
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Where was his father?

That's not the point.

I went out with wild Eskimo hunters.

Shot a dog.

Did the dog die?

It died.

The mother of the baby died.

We rolled her over.

Found a baby underneath her body.

A baby?

A baby.

We didn't want to kill the baby,

so we-we strapped him onto the-

the bobsled and......

brought him home

to live with us.

Goodnight, sweetheart.

Sonny!

Sonny!

Sonny!

Sonny, wait!

Sonny......

Myra Bernie told me

if you swallow a boy's come

then a piece of the boy gets stuck inside of you.

And, if he's, like, totally smart,

then you get smarter.

And if he's dumb, well, nothing really changes.

What is that?

Sonny.

Where'd you get that necklace?

Where did you get that necklace?

Thank you.

Sonny!

I don't like the country.

Creeps me out.

In the country, dead bodies

live in swamps and ditches and shallow graves.

A man dumps the body of a girl in a ditch.

The body rots, melts into slime.

Flowers pop up where the body lies,

seeds fly out of the flowers,

and the bee sucks the flowers and makes honey.

And then the family of the girl

buys the honey from the store.

And the family eats the girl.

This is not some kind of, like, abuse story, okay?

I don't cry over spilt milk, you know?

I- I can't even drink milk

because I'm lactose intolerant.

I should've run away.

Like, forty gadrillion years ago,

but I wasn't abused.

Mom?

Mom?

Mom?

Mom!

F***!

The blizzard's coming.

I know and... can't I go outside for,

like a second?

-I need to relax.

-You're grounded.

-What am I supposed to do?

-You're going to lock that door

and watch your brother.

I might as well kill myself so I can f***ing rest.

Hey! Mommy and I love you. Don't you know that?

We don't want you to go outside

because the blizzard's coming

and grounded is grounded.

Now promise us you'll stay inside.

Yeah, okay, I promise.

I'm just going to lock the door.

The door locked?

-Yeah. Yeah, I'm just locking it.

-Good girl.

Do you live in a condominium?

I live in a house.

How many people live in your house?

You know 'cause I was thinking.

Maybe I could rent a room.

You know, and then, when they find Sonny,

we-we can come live with you.

Tracey, you can't come home with me.

Why not?

Well, for one thing there are rules.

I'm not... I'm not going go tell on anybody.

Why don't you go home?

Go home.

Talk to your family.

Contrary to what you believe,

your feelings will be beneficial to your parents.

They need to know what you're feeling.

F*** that!

What did you say?

Nothing.

I am just...I'm really worried

that I'm going insane.

Well, if you're worried,

go to the hospital.

Where they put the nut bars?

Where they put the nut bars?

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Maureen Medved

Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Waterloo, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario. She wrote a screenplay based on her first novel The Tracey Fragments, which was made into a film of the same name directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Ellen Page. more…

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