Parsley Days (2000)
3.5 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 19min
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- Synopsis:
With plenty of subversive stuff bubbling under the narrative, "Parsley Days" introduces Kate (Megan Dunlop), her perfect boyfriend Ollie (Michael Leblanc) and their friends: All young, cool, bike-riding, environmentally-conscious, family-oriented, thrift-shop-frequenting artists. Sort of. Kate is considered the luckiest woman around because she and Ollie have such a great relationship. Ollie runs a birth control clinic. Kate is a bike maintenance instructor. What nobody knows is that Kate really wants to break up with Ollie, and to complicate matters, she is pregnant. A herbalist friend (Marcia Connolly) suggests that parsley taken internally in several creative ways will induce a herbal abortion. So while Kate spends most of the rest of the movie with green sprigs all over her person, her friends continue to express total disbelief that anyone, anywhere, could ever want to break up with Ollie...Despite how odd it sounds, "Parsley Days" is endlessly funny and charming. It's also a bittersweet story of self-discovery. In both a visual and narrative sense, it has a nice sense of the absurd about it, and director Andrea Dorfman manages a light touch on some big issues... - Actors:
- Megan Dunlop, Michael LeBlanc, Bruce Godfree, Nobu Adilman, Vanessa Maximillian, Harvey Seasons, Connie Eaton, Marla McLean, Marcia Connolly, Paul Gailiunas, Shannon Cunningham, Kenneth Harrington, Tara Doyle, Lise Cormier, Lily Kirk
- Directors:
- Andrea Dorfman
- Writers:
- Andrea Dorfman
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
- Countries:
- Canada
