![]() ![]() The film received three Canadian Comedy Award nominations at the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019, for Best Performance in a Feature (Pirie), Best Direction in a Feature (Lalonde) and Best Writing in a Film (Abrams, Brendan Gall). ![]() I didn’t buy the resolution, if you can call it that." Awards The screenplay is lean and unsentimental, but takes us nowhere. They were orbited by an extended crew of characters. If so, that something is very well disguised. The Go Getters were a Chicago rap group in the mid-to-late ’90s, consisting of a young Kanye West alongside GLC, Timmy G, and Arrowstar. Once Owen and Lacie get going, there’s positively no stopping them." īrad Wheeler of The Globe and Mail was more dismissive, writing that "even though this film is set within the world of the clownishly down-and-out in Toronto, it attempts to say something uplifting. Instead of working with more observational material, The Go-Getters is comprised of heightened situations, bizarre characters, and gross-out gags delivered like they’re coming out of a gatling gun. While LaLonde ( How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, Sex After Kids) is no stranger to risque material, the sheer amount of manic, wall-to-wall misanthropy on display in The Go-Getters marks a quantum leap in his directorial chops and style, with the filmmaker making great use of split-screens and rapid fire editing that makes this feel like a heist movie for degenerates. Critical response Īndrew Parker of TheGATE.ca positively reviewed the film, writing that "Those hip to what LaLonde and company are laying down will be treated to an uncompromising comedic work unlike anything that’s been attempted in Canadian cinema for quite some time. The song, titled Baby’s Coming, features Ye’s former crew The Go. It opened commercially in Canadian theatres in December 2018. Over the weekend, a Reddit user posted an unreleased Kanye West track presumed to be from the late 1990s or early 2000s. Kanye West’s Donda Academy allegedly fostered a chaotic environment of bullying, health and safety violations, and endless sushi lunches according to a new lawsuit. and had its Canadian premiere at the Canadian Film Festival on March 20. The film premiered on Maat the Cinequest Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Comedy Feature. The film's cast also includes Kristian Bruun, Christine Horne, Scott Thompson, Kate Hewlett, Jonas Chernick, Teresa Pavlinek and Ennis Esmer. The film stars Aaron Abrams and Tommie-Amber Pirie as Owen and Lacie, an aimless alcoholic and a prostitute in Toronto who form an alliance to raise $98 to pay for two bus tickets out of town however, due to their shared penchant for self-defeating behaviour, this seemingly simple task proves more difficult for them to achieve than they planned. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of. The Go-Getters is a 2018 Canadian comedy film, directed by Jeremy Lalonde. Talib Kweli sampled Go Getterss Nothings Gonna Stop Me.
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