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One Week

Dir Michael McGowan w/ Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban. 94 min. Gala.

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BY Jason Anderson   August 27, 2008 12:08

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The story of a young man who journeys across Canada after learning he’s terminally ill, the second feature by the director of Saint Ralph is patriotic to a fault. One Week is crowded silly with such emblems of nationhood as Sudbury’s Big Nickel, the Northern Lights, the Stanley Cup, the Banff Springs Hotel and Gord Downie himself. If only there were a movie to complement the travelogue. As the ailing traveller Ben, Joshua Jackson is plenty amiable but One Week is sunk by its relentlessly cutesy tone, frequent outbreaks of cloying sentimentality and strange lack of dramatic incidents beyond the occasional motorcycle breakdown. We’re running on fumes even before we make it to Manitoba. 

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