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Article: Beautiful losers: Don Shebib's between friends.
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- Take One
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Don Shebib's Between Friends (1973), about a group of beautiful losers who commit a robbery in northern Ontario with disastrous results, remains for me one of the great Canadian films despite changing critical fashion and paradigms of Canadian cinema. The film tells the story of Chino (Chuck Shamata), his girlfriend, Ellie (Bonnie Bedelia), her father Will (Henry Beckman), a professional thief, and Chino's American friend and former surfing buddy Toby (Michael Parks), who together--sort of --execute a clumsy heist that goes horribly wrong. This dour and downbeat story is, nevertheless," a taut, serious dramatic study of loyalty, Canadian/U.S. relations and the limitations ...