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Synopsis: Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jacob Tierney
Production: Park Ex
  9 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
120 min
$439,880
Website
700 Views


a youth hostel or something.

- youth hostel?

- Stay in a hotel.

- Mais voyons donc!

- Stay in a hotel.

- Well, l can't afford it.

Dad cut me off!

- Completely?

- Yes.

- What a Nazi.

- Don't call your father a Nazi.

- Well, he is a Nazi!

- Don't say that word!

- Whatever, Ma.

You're not even Jewish.

- Hey! Sarah!

You're Jewish enough for me.

- You're proud of yourself?

Teaching your sister to talk that way?

- l didn't say anything!

- You don't have to.

She doesn't talk that way

when you're not around.

- Makes perfect sense.

She's never said "Nazi."

- l don't want to hear

that word in my house!

- Freedom of speech is

an inalienable right

that you, sir,

have neither the authority

nor the wherewithal

to do away with!

- Stop yelling!

- ls it gonna be every summer

he comes home,

he turns my daughter

against me?

- Oh, David!

- Dad.

- l don't have to turn anybody

against you!

- l see.

- They're free to see the face

of oppression!

- The oppression

that pays for school?

- l hate that boarding school.

- Suddenly, you hate the school.

- Suddenly?

l always hated that school.

- Words have consequences.

l hope you're prepared for that.

- Leon?

- l'm leaving. l'm leaving.

- Can you just wait a minute, please?

He's so upset when you fight!

- Oh, don't defend him!

- Fine.

O... l want you to take this.

- l--l told you!

- lt's not Daddy's!

lt's mine.

You're my only stepson that l love.

nd it's gonna kill me if l think that

you're sleeping in a shelter

with homeless people

peeing on you.

- Homeless people peeing on me?

- Yeah.

- Jesus. Yeah, O.., Ma.

- O...

Oh, t'es fin! T'es fin!

l want you to

do me another favour.

- Mm-hmm?

- l want you to come

on Friday for Shabbat.

- Oh! l...

l--l--l don't want

to eat with that man.

- For me.

Do it for me. Please?

- l'll make all your favourites.

- Shepherd's pie?

- Oui.

Merci, mon chou.

- l love you very much, mom.

e careful.

- Bien sr.

- O..?

- Hmm.

- Thank you very much

for not pissing on me.

- xcuse me, sir.

re you Frank McGovern?

- Yeah.

- Oh, l'm so glad you're here.

- l'm not here. l'm leaving.

l'll be back this afternoon.

- Oh, no, no, no.

Uh, we need to talk now.

Um, unfortunately, neither of us

has any choice in the matter.

lt's fate.

l mean it's...

not just that the conditions

were deplorable,

which they were,

believe you me.

Certain people weren't being

given a full hour for lunch,

let alone any semblance

of a break.

l mean, are we in

the industrial revolution?

Have these people never heard

of the Reform ill of 1832?

This is all to say

- that each of these ills seem

- union.

- nd so you staged

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Jacob Tierney

Jacob Daniel Tierney (born September 26, 1979) is a Canadian actor, director and screenwriter. more…

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