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Listen to the City (1984) Online
1984 P.J. Soles Michael Glassbourg Sandy Horne Ron Mann
Original Title :
Listen to the City
Genre :
Movie
Year :
1984
Directror :
Ron Mann
Cast :
P.J. Soles,Michael Glassbourg,Sandy Horne
Writer :
Ron Mann,Bill Schroeder
Budget :
CAD 300,000
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 18min
Rating :
4.3/10

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Listen to the City (1984) Online

I see a new world. Do you see it? If you listened to the city back in 1984, here's what it told you: there are dark days coming, and the only way to survive them is by being rich. Made during the re-election year of Ronald Reagan, the election year of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the very beginnings of the shattering saving and loan scandal that would come to look like candy store shoplifting a generation on, Ron Mann's rare early non-documentary movie is like a downtown artist's poster collage of DIY urgency: from the opening sequence, in which the poet/punk (Jim Carroll) rises like Lazarus from his hospital bed and takes to the streets with a vertical IV drip and a message about better days, to the ensuing satirical depiction of a corporation coldly deciding to cut the unprofitable heart out of the city it calls home, the movie plays as fearless, street-art inspired pastiche: part experimental polemic, part political cartoon, part video art installation, part performance prank.
Credited cast:
P.J. Soles P.J. Soles - Sophia
Michael Glassbourg Michael Glassbourg - Goodman
Sandy Horne Sandy Horne - Arete
Jim Carroll Jim Carroll - Hupar
Barry Callaghan Barry Callaghan - Father
Sky Gilbert Sky Gilbert - Shadow
Mary Hawkins Mary Hawkins - White
Réal Andrews Réal Andrews - Green
Gary Augustynek Gary Augustynek - Black
Peter Wintonick Peter Wintonick - Peter
Bill Lord Bill Lord - Preston Sturrock
Gigi Guthrie Gigi Guthrie - Christie Hines
Peter J. Griffin Peter J. Griffin - Mayor
Geets Romo Geets Romo - Mayor's Assistant
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rosemary Carroll Rosemary Carroll - Education department head

The actor in the hospital bed in the first scene is future NDP leader Jack Layton.


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"A man wakes up from a 20-year coma and teams up with a young musician and poet to fight corporate crime." That's what the TV guide blurb used to say.

I remember the only thing more common than seeing this on TV in Canada throughout the late 80s (functioning as the usual CanCon timeslot filler that nobody watches) was seeing the soundtrack record at every public library branch. There was no need to place a hold on it, it was always conveniently available. It's THAT Canadian.

Despite Jim Carroll as the disoriented coma patient (neat casting), as well as two of my 80s crushes, Riff Randall and Spoons bassist Sandy Horne (who will forever be the crimped hair of my dreams), there's nothing much going on here. Full of left-wing utopian dreams that muddle around and go nowhere. Oh well, at least the Parachute Club aren't in it.