The Saddest Music in the World – (2003)
Movie: The Saddest Music in the World
Year: 2003
Also Known As: A Canção Mais Triste do Mundo
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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Musical | Romance
Cast: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan, Louis Negin, Darcy Fehr, Claude Dorge, Talia Pura, Jeff Sutton…
Plot: It's the winter of 1933 in Winnipeg. In honor of Winnipeg being named the sorrow capital of the world for the Depression era for the fourth year running by the London Times, Lady Helen Port-Huntley, the legless owner of Winnipeg's Port-Huntley Beer, is hosting and judging a contest to see which nation has the saddest music in the world, the winner to take home a $25,000 prize. Seeing as to the current Prohibition in the United States, Lady Port-Huntley has ulterior motives for the contest. Father and son, streetcar conductor Fyodor Kent and New York based musical producer Chester Kent, who both have a past connection to Lady Port-Huntley (Fyodor, a WWI veteran and former doctor, has fashioned for her an unusual pair of artificial legs apropos to her business), want to represent Canada and the United States respectively in the contest. Despite Lady Port-Huntley's hatred for the Kent's…
Rated: 7.0/10 from 3,680 votes on IMDb
Release Date: (Portugal)
Runtime: 100
Tagline: "If you're sad, and like beer, I'm your lady."
Countries: Canada
Directors: Guy Maddin
Writers: Kazuo Ishiguro, George Toles
Budget: $CAD3,500,000
Languages: English
Location: Manitoba Production Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada