MoMA Presents features films that will be screened for a week, giving MoMA audiences an extended opportunity to catch these significant works. The weeklong engagement of Poor Boy's Game is presented as part of Canadian Front, 2008.
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Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, and
presented in association with Telefilm Canada.
Poor Boy's Game. 2007. Canada. Directed by Clement Virgo
Poor Boy's Game.
2007.
Canada.
Directed by Clement Virgo.
Screenplay by Chaz Thorne, Virgo. With Rossif Sutherland, Flex Alexander, Danny Glover. The "poor boy's game" in question is boxing, and Clement Virgo's most recent feature is a knockout, set in the racially divided, working-class neighborhoods of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where there has been a sizeable black community since the 1840s. Dockworker and former boxer George wants vengeance for his son, a promising young black boxer who was assaulted and crippled by Donnie, a man who is about to be released from prison after serving time for his crime. As tensions and violence rise in the community, the narrative cannily shifts focus. Poor Boy's Game may be more about kinship and its demands than boxing, but it nevertheless ends with an extra-ordinarily suspenseful match—one in which the viewer wants neither of the fighters to win or lose. Courtesy ThinkFilm.
104 min.
Thursday, March 13, 2008,
7:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1(New York premiere) Friday, March 14, 2008,
4:15 p.m., Theater 2, T2(New York premiere) Saturday, March 15, 2008,
3:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2(New York premiere) Saturday, March 15, 2008,
5:15 p.m., Theater 2, T2(New York premiere) Sunday, March 16, 2008,
2:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2(New York premiere) Monday, March 17, 2008,
8:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1(New York premiere) Tuesday, March 18, 2008,
5:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2(New York premiere)
Poor Boy's Game. 2007. Canada. Directed by Clement Virgo
