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(Elaine Cassidy, in the title role) seeks
the missing father of her child, with the
aid of Hilditch (Bob Hoskins), an equally

disturbed soul.

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debut at the prestigious Opening Night
Gala. The pair enjoyed the same honor
two years earlier with The Sweet
Hereafter (see Production Slate, AC Dec.
'97), which earned Egoyan Academy
Award nominations for Best Director and

also

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Best Screenplay Adaptation,

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filmmakers.

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fifth

and brought

Sarossy subsequently shot

Paul Schrader's Affliction (Production

without

Slate, AC Nov. '98), while Egoyan was
approached by Mel Gibson's Icon
Productions to make Felicia's Journey, an
adaptation of the 1994 Whitbread
Award-winning novel by Irish author

vignetting.

William Trevor.
The

Canadian/British

co¬

production, also financed by Canada's
Alliance Atlantis Pictures, tells the tale
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Although the budget of Felicia's
Journey (approximately $10 million)
pushed indie filmmakers Egoyan and
Sarossy closer to the mainstream, the
film is not a departure from the style of
their previous work, but rather a mature
extension of that style. Author Trevor's
source material allowed Egoyan to
practice his favored narrative technique
gradually revealing characters' true
natures through flashbacks - and the
British Isles locations were ideally suited
to the filmmaker's preferred format,
anamorphic widescreen (which he'd
previously employed in The Adjuster and
The Sweet Hereaftei). "Anamorphic is
an ideal format," Egoyan maintains. "It
allows you to get a really richly saturated
negative - you're making absolute full
use of the negative."
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girl who is seduced by Johnny

(Peter McDonald), a young cad who
heads to England to join the British army

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Cassidy), a naive, small¬

Hilditch (Bob Hoskins), a middle-aged
catering manager for a large factory. The
seemingly docile Hilditch aids Felicia on
her quest, but we soon discover that he
has an unhealthy attachment to his late
mother (Arsinee Khanjian) and harbors a

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disapproving father (Gerard McSorley).
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