How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town
Short description
Cassie Cranston left Beaver's Ridge as a teenager under a cloud, driven out by a town that judged her harshly after a humiliating early sexual experience. Years later she has built a life in the city as a sex columnist, and she returns home to bury her mother. The reception is not warm. Her former friends and neighbours still treat her with the same contempt, and her old nemesis, now primly respectable, asks her to help plan an orgy for the old crowd. Cassie sees a way to settle scores, turning their secret ambitions into material for a book.
The film is a Canadian comedy-drama written and directed by Jeremy LaLonde, his second feature after Sex After Kids and the film that precedes Daniel's Gotta Die in his filmography. Jewel Staite leads as Cassie, with Ennis Esmer, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Jonas Chernick, Katharine Isabelle and Mark O'Brien among the main cast, across 27 credited roles. Jordan Walker and Chris Bennett produced.
It was released in September 2015 and runs 102 minutes. Audience response has been lukewarm, with a 5.5 rating on IMDb from roughly 3,900 votes and 5.1 on TMDB from about 146 votes. A critics' rating of 4.4 from 14 reviews sits below the IMDb figure, so professional assessment has been less favourable than the modest audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Funding for the filming was raised through the crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo.
- Filming took place in Unionville, Ontario, where the pilot episode of Gilmore Girls was also shot.
- A blizzard began in the midst of filming, changing autumn to winter overnight. As a result, the film crew had to avoid outdoor scenes that still needed to be shot.
- All the houses shown in the film are actually within walking distance of each other.
- The film was shot in 18 days.
- For certain scenes, Ennis Esmer had to wear a special device. Director Jeremy LaLonde told him it was for blocking purposes, but in reality, he did it just for fun.
- The entire cast decided at the last moment to abandon their "preconceptions" for the main climactic scene.
- The scenes inside Union Station in Toronto were filmed in a "guerrilla style": only Jewel State, director Jeremy Lalonde, and cinematographer D. Gregor Hage were on set.
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