This Beautiful City
Released: 2007
Drama
Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.
Starring: Aaron Poole, Kristin Booth, Caroline Cave, Noam Jenkins, Kat Germain, Tony Nappo, Jack Murray, Christopher Cordell
Directed by: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Written by: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Language: English
Scenes
Harry (Noam Jenkins) walks down an alley and sees the prostitute Pretty (Kristin Booth) squatting and pissing on the pavement. A real-looking stream is shown for a couple of seconds before we get a wider shot of her squatting as the pee sound continues. According to the director's DVD commentary, the actress had difficulty peeing on camera. When she finishes her pee, she offers to suck Harry's cock for $30.