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Eventually the disappointments, disillusionments, and failures become a norm in life that creates tremendous inner stress. His films since have dramatized Canada-US relations in Deserters; explored the dangers and disillusionments of middle-age in Kingsgate; and satirized the precarious nature of the Canadian film industry in Overnight, about an actor who ends up in porn films to survive and is encouraged by a proud fellow performer with this immortal rallying cry: "We may be small, we may be dirty, but we're Canadian Yet if the opening of ``The Laws of Our Fathers'' - and its exploration of racial and political tensions - is vaguely reminiscent of Tom Wolfe's ``Bonfire of the Vanities,'' it soon becomes clear to the reader that the novel actually bears a closer resemblance to two movies, Lawrence Kasdan's ``Big Chill'' and John Sayles' ``Return of the Secaucus Seven'' - movies that chronicle the nervous reunion of former college radicals entering into the disillusionments of middle age. |
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