Moving Malcolm

• Benjamin Ratner: Gene Maxwell
• John Neville: Malcolm Woodward
• Elizabeth Berkley: Liz Woodward
• Jay Brazeau: George Maxwell
• Babs Chula: Gisha Maxwell
• Rebecca Harker: Jolea
• Linda Sorenson: Ruby
• Nicholas Lea: Herbert
• Tom Scholte: helper
• Philip Granger: Driver

Moving Malcolm is a Canadian comedy film directed by Benjamin Ratner from the year 2003.

Action

The writer Gene Maxwell has dominant parents Gisha and George as well as an autistic sister, Jolea. His former fiancee Liz Woodward must go away and asks Gene if he could help her father Malcolm moving. He agrees in the hope that they regain a result.

Reviews

Derek Tse wrote on Jam! Movies, the film is not particularly funny for a comedy. There are few successful gags. The length film seem much longer than it was. The illustrations are good - especially those of Ratner, Berkley and Neville. This would not be enough to save the film.

Susan Walker wrote in the Toronto Star, the film is touching in some places, but it does not affect the comic side.

Awards

Benjamin Ratner won a prize of the World Film Festival and in 2004 a prize from the Washington DC Independent Film Festival in 2003. Rebecca Harker won the 2004 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award and the Jury Prize of Hertfordshire Film Festival, also she was nominated in 2004 for the Canadian Leo Award.

Background

First Jennifer Beals was hired for the role of Liz Woodward. Because of scheduling problems, it waived the employees and recommended for this role, the friend of Beals Elizabeth Berkley.

The film was shot in Vancouver with a budget of an estimated one million U.S. dollars. It had its world premiere on 30 August 2003 at the World Film Festival in Montreal ( Montreal Film Festival). On 8 October 2003, he was presented at the Vancouver International Film Festival, which was followed by participation in numerous other film festivals.