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Lunch with Charles

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Lunch with Charles
Directed byMichael Parker
Written byMichael Parker
Produced byMichael Parker
Shan Tam
StarringSean Lau
Theresa Lee
Nicholas Lea
Bif Naked
Tom Scholte
CinematographyJohn Houtman
Edited byMichelle Floyd
Grace Yuen
Music bySimon Kendall
Production
companies
WJ Film Productions
Foreign Exchange Films
Holiday Pictures
Distributed byLong Shong Entertainment Group
Release date
  • January 14, 2001 (2001-01-14)
Running time
94 minutes
CountriesCanada
Hong Kong
LanguagesEnglish
Cantonese

Lunch with Charles is a romantic comedy-drama film, directed by Michael Parker and released in 2001.[1] A coproduction of companies from Canada and Hong Kong, the film stars Sean Lau as Tong, a Hong Kong musician and businessman who has been living apart from his wife April (Theresa Lee) for three years due to his reluctance to join her when her career in public relations took her to Vancouver.

Believing that she is having an affair, he now travels to Vancouver to track her down, staying at a bed and breakfast run by Matthew (Nicholas Lea) and Natasha (Bif Naked), just as April is about to head to Banff with her client Tom (Tom Scholte) in hopes of signing a popular rock band to endorse his product,[2] with Matthew, Natasha and Tong also following after the band's lead singer quits, and their manager Charles (Philip Granger), an old friend of Natasha's from her own days as a musician, calls and asks her to replace him.[3]

The film won three Leo Awards in 2001, for Best Director (Parker), Best Screenwriter (Parker) and Best Musical Score (Simon Kendall),[4] and was also nominated for Best Film, Best Actor (Lea), Best Cinematography (John Houtman), Best Production Design (Michael Bjornson).[5] Kendall, Tom Landa and Geoffrey Kelly received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2001 for the song "Parting Glass".[6]

References

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  1. ^ Ken Eisner, "Lunch with Charles". Variety, August 5, 2001.
  2. ^ Norman Wilner, "Lunch leaves you hungry". Toronto Star, July 27, 2001.
  3. ^ Marke Andrews, "Road movie could use higher octane: B.C.-made indie comedy stalls on its way to Banff". Vancouver Sun, January 26, 2001.
  4. ^ Alexandra Gill, "Da Vinci breaks out the bubbly". The Globe and Mail, May 14, 2001.
  5. ^ "Leo nominations announced". Vancouver Sun, April 13, 2001.
  6. ^ "Nominees for this year's Genie Awards". Toronto Star, December 13, 2001.
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