Mile Zero | |
Director: | Andrew Currie |
Producer: | Trent Carlson Blake Corbet |
Starring: | Michael Riley Sabrina Grdevich Connor Widdows |
Music: | Don MacDonald |
Cinematography: | Robert Aschmann |
Editing: | Reginald Harkema |
Studio: | Anagram Pictures |
Distributor: | Cinemavault |
Runtime: | 92 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
Mile Zero is a Canadian drama film, directed by Andrew Currie and released in 2001.[1] The film stars Michael Riley as Derek Ridley, a divorced father who abducts his son Will (Connor Widdows) after his ex-wife Allison (Sabrina Grdevich) tries to limit his contact.[2] Currie's intention for the film was to present a nuanced understanding of the emotional vulnerability that might lead a father to act in this manner, neither demonizing him as a mainstream Hollywood film would likely have done nor portraying him as a hero; it was inspired in part by Currie's own emotions about having to spend a year away from his son while studying at the Canadian Film Centre.[1]
The film premiered at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival in September 2001,[3] before screening at the 2001 Vancouver International Film Festival as the opening film in the Canadian Perspectives program.[4]
The film received three Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2001, for Best Canadian Film, Best Actor in a Canadian Film (Riley) and Best Director of a Canadian Film (Currie).[5]