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The Steps (film)

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The Steps
Film poster
Directed byAndrew Currie
Written byRobyn Harding
StarringEmmanuelle Chriqui
CinematographyRobert Aschmann
Edited byJorge Weisz
Release dates
  • 14 September 2015 (2015-09-14) (TIFF)
  • 3 June 2016 (2016-06-03) (Canada)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Steps is a 2015 Canadian comedy film directed by Andrew Currie.[1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

Plot

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Jeff (Jason Ritter), a Wall Street power broker going through a slump in business and relationship, and Marla (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a party-loving Princeton graduate, are siblings. Their father Ed (James Brolin) is a wealthy old man who has remarried and moved to Lake Country in Ontario, Canada. The siblings resentfully arrive with their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, an ex-waitress, Sherry (Christine Lahti) and her children: redneck David (Benjamin Arthur) and his wife Tammy (Kate Corbett), failed musician Keith (Steven McCarthy) and academically inclined Sam (Vinay Virmani). Ed and Sherry announce their plans to adopt a child in an attempt to gel the new family together. The movie attempts to portray a comic clash between two cultures and two families which quickly descends into chaos.

Cast

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Christine Lahti and Andrew Currie at the Miami Film Festival in 2016

References

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  1. ^ "The Steps Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. ^ "The Steps". TIFF. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
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