ComingSoon.net: Toronto Film Festival Preview - The Boys are Back

By Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net
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September 9, 2009

It's that time of year again, as the Toronto International Film Festival (also referred to as TIFF) is ready to kick-off ten days of non-stop movies and parties, taking over the theaters and clubs of arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the Northern Hemisphere.

Founded in 1976, the annual festival has become one of three must-attend events for the film industry, mainly because it's one of the primary markets for new movies from all over the world to show up seeking distribution. Every year, the festival is the chosen place for many of the world's most prestigious filmmakers to debut their work, but it's also where studios will premiere their movies opening theatrically over the next couple months, hoping to build buzz at the festivals to help generate awards attention later in the year. (It would be good to note that three of the last four Oscar Best Picture winners premiered at TIFF.)

This will be ComingSoon.net's third year attending the festival and the first year where you can follow our up-to-the-minute news and quick reviews on ComingSoon's festival Twitter feed @CSConFest, which will probably be more regular than our festival reports and full reviews.

Before it begins, we're going to give you a brief look at some of the standouts, both ones that already have distribution and some of the key ones that don't. There are far too many movies of all the varieties mentioned above to discuss them all, but we'll look specifically at movies premiering at TIFF that have caught our attention, starting with a couple of the movies we're most looking forward to seeing and reviewing.

... Clive Owen stars in The Boys are Back (Miramax - September 25), directed by Scott Hicks (Shine), also based on a memoir, this one from Simon Carr, a sports writer forced to care for his two sons after the sudden death of his wife from cancer. It's a powerful film, a real tearjerker, with one of Owen's most surprising performances as he tries to cope with the problems of being a single father...

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