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Radiant City is a National Film Board of Canada film released in 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival, about suburban sprawl and the fictional Moss family who live in the suburbs. It was filmed in Calgary, Alberta. While the characters and instances in the movie are fictional, the actors that play them all do live in real suburban areas.
Experts interviewed during this film include Joseph Heath, Mark Kingwell, James Howard Kunstler, and Beverly Sandalack .
Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia, we follow the lives of various inhabitants of this pervasive urban sprawl and hear their thoughts. However at the end, there is a twist that plays on the falseness of the world in they live. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
This movie is about life in the projects circa 1958: Driven to the brink by her overworked and unsensitive husband and horrendously selfish children, Brooklyn-based housewife Gloria Goodman (Kirstie Alley) seeks a meaning to life. Suddenly, she meets Bert Kramer (Gil Bellows), a hipper-than-thou young writer, who shows her a new view on life... and also the possibility of a passionate romance... Will she be seduced or will she find her own path in life? Or maybe both? Written by Miguel Cane




