The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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Drama. Comedy
It took a pair of Canadian ex-pats to beat Hollywood at its own game. The nascent Canadian film industry of the seventies suffered from two shortcomings when it came to making commercial films that could compete in the marketplace: a lack of both competent scripts and professional actors with drawing power. So Ted Kotcheff, who had started his career in Toronto before moving to London – where he met Mordecai Richler – teamed up with the ... [+]