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Zero Patience

Country: Canada | UK, Language: English | French, 100 mins

  • Director: John Greyson
  • Writer: John Greyson
  • Producer: Louise Garfield; Alexandra Raffe

CGiii Comment

Wildly imaginative, completely bizarre, refreshingly frank - and poignant, emotive and deliriously funny.

The question has to be asked: if Greyson had a huge budget, what would he have delivered?

Really rather wondrous - see it, to believe it.

At last, blaming one man has been addressed and dispelled.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The ghost of Zero - "patient zero", who allegedly first brought aids to Canada - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an Aids Exhibition ...

Cast & Characters

John Robinson as Sir Richard Burton;
Normand Fauteux as Zero;
Dianne Heatherington as Mary;
Richardo Keens-Douglas as George;
Bernard Behrens as Dr. Placebo;
Charlotte Boisjoli as Maman;
Brenda Kamino as Dr. Cheng;
Michael Callen as Miss HIV;
Marla Lukofsky as African Green Monkey;
Von Flores as Ray; Scott Hurst as Michael;
Duncan McIntosh as Ross;
Cassel Miles as Barry;
Benjamin Plener as Ted;
Ann Medina