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FUNKYTOWN

By Daniel ROBY

CARAMEL FILMS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2010

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH-CANADIAN
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 133 mn
- Director(s)
- Daniel ROBY
- Writer(s)
- Steve GALLUCIO
- Cast
- Patrick HUARD, Raymond BOUCHARD
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-BE8A-0000-8-0000-0000-D
- Producer(s)
- André ROULEAU (Canada)
- Synopsis
- In the mid-seventies, Montreal was at the top of its game: it was
  the richest city in Canada, one of the largest cities in North
  America, and was about to take center-stage once again with the
  advent of the 1976 Olympic games. Montreal was also the epicenter
  of the disco movement, a phenomenon that changed the face of
  music, of fashion, and ushered in a lifestyle of unadulterated
  freedom.
  A bilingual dark tragedy with its comedic moments, and a cross
  between “Magnolia” and “Saturday Night Fever”, FUNKYTOWN follows
  the lives of a television variety show host who wants to become a
  movie star, a has-been singing sensation who desperately wants to
  make a comeback, an Italian disco dancing king who doesn’t want
  to be gay, a beautiful super model who wants a singing career, a
  jet-setting gossip columnist who wants to find true love, an
  elderly mogul who wants to make a man out of his son, and a son
  who needs to get rid of his father in order to become a man.
  Juggling freedom and tradition, lovers and family, drugs and
  sobriety, fame and anonymity, our characters are forced to make
  sober choices in an era when excess was the norm, and when disco
  was king.