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Bruce McDonald

Bruce McDonald

Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He is known for his award-winning cult films Roadkill (1989) and Hard Core Logo (1996).

He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.

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Movies Made By Bruce McDonald (27)

Weirdos (2016)

It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a s ...

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Hellions (2015)

A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door. ...

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The Husband (2014)

A darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son when his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a minor. ...

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Hard Core Logo 2 (2010)

Bruce McDonald's long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has relocated to L.A. and scored a profitable gig as a TV director. When the show he's been working on is suddenly p ...

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My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010)

Geeky 14-year old Ethan is left to babysit his younger sister, Jane, with his best friend Benny but after Ethan inadvertently puts Jane in harm's way, his parents hire a professional babysitter, the beautiful yet mysterious 17-year-old Sarah who, unbeknown ...

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Music from the Big House (2010)

Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning recording artist, has decided to take a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues—Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison. She never imagined that her love of the blues would lead her to play wit ...

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Trigger (2010)

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night. ...

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This Movie Is Broken (2010)

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Bro ...

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Pontypool (2009)

When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth ...

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The Tracey Fragments (2007)

Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She ...

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Killer Wave (2007)

The first one strikes without warning. Then another. Soon the massive walls of water are swallowing coast upon coast, town after town. Even as countless lives are lost in the onslaught, only the worst is yet to come. ...

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The love crimes of Gillian Guess (2004)

A woman becomes romantically involved with a murder defendant while she is a juror in his trial. ...

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Picture Claire (2001)

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon find ...

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Stuff (1999)

Trapped in a miserable existence by his mentally unwell mother, things turn upside down for Phillip when he accidentally comes into possession of a ring with mysterious powers and dark connections. ...

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Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (1998)

The life of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, filled with frustrations and glamour as she settles to become a best-selling writer after struggling as an actress. ...

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American Whiskey Bar (1998)

American Whiskey Bar is a live Canadian television film directed by Bruce McDonald, adapted from a novel by Michael Turner. It follows a screenwriter attempting to mount a provocative project, intercut with the "film within the film" depicting conversation ...

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Elimination Dance (1998)

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event. ...

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Platinum (1997)

An up-and-coming indie band consider signing a record deal. ...

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Hard Core Logo (1996)

Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the ro ...

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Dance Me Outside (1995)

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the ra ...

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The Mysterious Moon-Men of Canada (1993)

A filmmaker searches for two Canadians who flew to the moon in 1959, but because they were Canadian, were too modest to tell anybody about it. ...

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Blue (1992)

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche. ...

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Highway 61 (1991)

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, ...

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Speaking Parts (1990)

Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra. ...

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Roadkill (1989)

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs. ...

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Family Viewing (1987)

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happi ...

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Next of Kin (1984)

Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views ...

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Movies Starring Bruce McDonald (6)

The Hexecutioners (2015)

Two disparate young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual, but unwittingly summon the wraiths of a Death Cult that once inhabited the property. ...

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Hellmouth (2014)

A gravekeeper is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman. ...

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Hard Core Logo 2 (2010)

Bruce McDonald's long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has relocated to L.A. and scored a profitable gig as a TV director. When the show he's been working on is suddenly p ...

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Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing (2004)

Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this sto ...

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Last Night (1998)

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. ...

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Roadkill (1989)

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs. ...

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