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MAN RUNNING

By Gary BURNS

APL FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2018

A young Doctor runs in a grueling 24 hour ultra marathon as he struggle with his decision to assist in the death of a terminally ill teenager under his care. ?

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Gary BURNS
- Writer(s)
- Gary BURNS, Donna BRUNSDALE
- Cast
- Gord RAND, Ivana SHEIN, Milli WILKINSON
- Producer(s)
- Avi FEDERGREEN (FEDERGREEN ENTERTAINMENT INC.), Gary BURNS (Burns Films), Donna BRUNSDALE (Burns FIlms)
- Synopsis
- A young doctor runs in a grueling 24-hour, 200 kilometer ultramarathon over rugged mountain terrain as he avoids a police investigation into a recent incident involving his medical practice. Over the course of the marathon, as physical and mental exertion turns to exhaustion and hallucinations, race-related dramas intertwine with the details of his current crisis - he’s tormented by his decision to assist in the death of a terminally ill teenager under his care, against both the parents’ wishes and the legal parameters of assisted suicide. During the race the doctor imagines visits from his estranged wife, the patient’s parents, and the patient herself, shedding light on his decision to help his patient die and the degree to which his own thoughts of suicide contributed to his actions