Trailer Park Boys return to Atlantic film fest
Last Updated: Monday, August 10, 2009 | 1:49 PM ET
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The Trailer Park Boys are bringing their shenanigans back to the Atlantic Film Festival. They are, from left, John Paul Tremblay as Julian, Mike Smith as Bubbles and Robb Wells as Ricky. (Alliance Films) The last filmgoers heard of the Trailer Park Boys, they were heading for a two-year stretch in jail.
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles will return this fall, in time to open the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax with their new movie, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day.
Festival director Lia Rinaldo announced Monday that the festival, scheduled for Sept. 17-26, would open with the latest installment in the Boys saga.
It's a homecoming for the Trailer Park Boys, whose comic misadventures began at the Atlantic Film Festival in 1999 with a short by director Mike Clattenburg that was eventually developed into a TV program. The mockumentary series, starring Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith, became an unlikely international hit, lasting until 2007.
The first film, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, premiered at the Halifax-based festival in 2006.
The new film, shot on location in Dartmouth, N.S., follows the latest attempt by Ricky, Julian and Bubbles to get rich, in a way that they assure their parole board will be legitimate. They return to Sunnyvale trailer park and find a very different Jim Lahey, trailer park supervisor, standing in their way.
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, distributed by Alliance Films, opens across the country Sept. 25.
The rest of the Atlantic Film Festival lineup is to be unveiled Aug. 19.
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