Screening times:
Friday, February 3, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, February 4, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Karen Knox | Canada | 2022 | 90m | English
with Ellie Moon, Rebecca Northan, Leah Doz, Chelsea Muirhead, Michael Healey, Donald MacLean Jr.
Rosy (Ellie Moon) is a 25 year old former crown ward who aged out of foster care. Working as a conscientious bank employee, she has managed to build a stable life for herself despite her awkwardness and lack of social experience. When a co-worker Rosy looks to as a maternal figure retires, her carefully constructed world starts to unwind. She goes online in search of what she has never had: a mother or a father. She signs up for an adult adoption service and meets Jane, a high school teacher estranged from her own daughter. The fast intimacy between the pair leads to an obsessive and complicated mother-daughter attachment. Adult Adoption is a funny, brutal film exploring the truth and fantasy of unconditional love.
"Ellie Moon’s script and performance shine in Karen Knox’s fantastically constructed world, which makes Adult Adoption a real breath of fresh air. A perfect example of how you’re never too old to come into your ownself, and a wonderful example of how some of us get stuck along the way. Adult Adoption is well on its way to become this era’s (slightly more grown-up) Juno." -Kat Hughes, The Hollywood News
"Adult Adoption is scattered with many... little lessons about connections found in unexpected places without labouring the point, and embraces the often unexpectedly warm messiness of real life." -Amber Wilkinson, Screen Daily
"For all its quirks, at its heart Adult Adoption is a thoughtful coming-of-age story that will have you rooting for its complicated heroine." -Tabassum Siddiqui, Globe and Mail
Tickets $8.75 ($8 at the door if available).
Half capacity
Half capacity
