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Plot Successful Winnipeg-based artist David (Troy Ruptash) has become isolated from humankind due to his fame and notoriety, which negatively affects his inspiration for painting new works. Having come to the conclusion that the only cure for this condition is a heavy dose of culture immersion, David sets out to find a job -- and quickly finds one waiting tables at a diner run by married couple Matt (Vincent Corazza) and Violet (Cherilee Taylor). David purposefully manages to keep this new part of his life a secret from his best friends Kryla (Lynda Boyd) and Shannon (Thom Allison), especially when he starts developing a crush on Matt. As the two start a romantic relationship, Violet and Kryla each separately become suspicious and begin looking into the various inconsistencies surrounding Matt and David's recent actions. Matt, under pressure, ends the relationship but finds he must confess his sins to Violet when his and David's relationship is about to be made public due to some nude portraits David painted with Matt as the subject. The feature-film directing debut for Canadian playwright Brad Fraser, Leaving Metropolis gained wider public notice after being selected for inclusion into the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi
Cast
Troy Ruptash - David
Vincent Corazza - Matt
Lynda Boyd - Kryla
Cherilee Taylor - Violet
Tony Allison - Shannon
CreditSusan Forrest - Casting, Charlotte Penner - Costume Designer, Michelle Morris - First Assistant Director, Brad Fraser - Director, Earl Fudger - Editor, Kim Todd - Executive Producer, Paul Stiles - Executive Producer, Dennis Burke - Composer (Music Score), Craig Sandells - Production Designer, Daniel Vincelette - Cinematographer, Kim Todd - Producer, Paul Stiles - Producer, Ken Mead - Producer, Leon Johnson - Sound Mixer, Brad Fraser - Screenwriter, Kim Forrest - Set Decorator, Brad Fraser - Play Author
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Leaving Metropolis
Directed by
Brad Fraser
Produced by
Ken Mead
Paul Stiles
Kim Todd
Written by
Brad Fraser
Starring
Troy Ruptash
Vince Corazza
Lynda Boyd
Cherilee Taylor
Thom Allison
Music by
Dennis Burke
Cinematography
Daniel Vincelette
Editing by
Earl Fudger
Distributed by
Film Tonic
Release date(s)
2002
Running time
89 minutes
Country
Canada
Language
English
Leaving Metropolis is a 2002 Canadian drama film written, directed, and based on the play Poor Super Man by Brad Fraser, about a gay man and a married heterosexual man who fall in love. It was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The film played the international gay and lesbian film festival circuit throughout 2002 and 2003.
Contents
1 Plot summary
2 Superman
3 Awards and nominations
4 DVD release
5 External links
Plot summary
David (Troy Ruptash) is a well-known artist who is blocked. He decides to take a job as a waiter to try to find inspiration. His friend and roommate Shannon (Thom Allison), a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, stumbles across the Main St. Diner, owned by Matt (Vince Corazza) and Violet (Cherilee Taylor), who are looking for a waiter. David gets hired and quickly becomes close with the couple although they don't know of his standing in the art community and are surprised to learn that he's gay. David's friend Kryla (Lynda Boyd), a columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune, tracks David down at the diner against his wishes. An annoyed David demands that she write up the diner in her column, which she does. The diner's business picks up considerably.
Shannon, whose sex reassignment surgery has been repeatedly delayed because of her HIV-positive status, begins to become ill. David has a painting installed and Kryla gets his photo in the paper. Matt and Violet see the photo and realize that he's famous.
David and Matt start hanging out. Matt, who had tried his hand at drawing comic books, pesters David to show him his paintings but David resists. Matt confesses that he had once fallen in love with another man in college although he hadn't acted on it. David, finding himself drawn to Matt, paints him nude (although Matt doesn't pose). He tells Matt that there's a painting he needs to see. Matt comes to David's place and sees the painting. He becomes aroused and the two begin an affair.
David paints two more portraits of Matt, who still doesn't actually pose. Kryla and Shannon hail them as his best work and entreat him to exhibit them but Matt, nervous about how Violet would react, makes him promise not to. Each also tells the other that he loves him. They keep the relationship secret, though, especially in the face of the vehement disapproval Kryla expresses to David at the idea of his sleeping with a married man.
Kryla soon discovers the affair when she walks in on David and Matt having sex. A panicked Matt tells David that he lied about loving him and flees. In the aftermath of the affair, Shannon convinces David to break his promise and exhibit the paintings. He does so under the title "Straightman." When Matt learns of the show he confronts David, first threatening to destroy the paintings and then offering himself again sexually. David contemptuously dismisses him. Matt tells Violet about the paintings and about the affair and admits that he is in love with David. She demands a divorce.
Shannon, who has grown progressively more ill, decides to take her life. As she dies, David runs into Kryla at a bar and they have a bitter fight.
Violet attends the opening but merely tells David that the paintings are very good. As she's leaving Matt arrives and she refuses to give him another chance. After the opening Matt again approaches David who also rebuffs him.
At film's end, Violet sells the Main St. Diner and Matt has left town. David has also decided to leave. He and Kryla reconcile.
Superman
The film is set against the backdrop of several events in the fictional life of Superman in the early 1990s, including his revealing his secret identity and marriage to Lois Lane and The Death of Superman storyline. The events in the comics parallel events in the lives of the characters.
Awards and nominations
2002 Montr¨¦al World Film Festival Grand Prix des Am¨¦riques - nominated
DVD release
Leaving Metropolis was released on Region 1 DVD on April 6, 2004.
External links
Leaving Metropolis at the Internet Movie Database
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