Saturday, May 13, 1:00 PM, Charles Theatre 2

Director: John Hazlett

Cast: David Boreanaz, Caroline Dhavernas, Amanda Walsh, Holly Lewis

Country: Canada
Year: 2005
Running Time: 92:00 minutes
Format: DVD

Keira, Glory, and Lisa are best friends and high school seniors growing bored with life in their small town in Canada. When Keira and Lisa find out that Glory is sleeping with Keith, an older married man, they both go about seducing him as well. When the three girls find out that they are all sleeping with him, their friendship is threatened until they come up with a plan to share him. Their scheme works for a while until a sexually exhausted Keith sets in motion his plan to escape the plan and everything comes crashing down.

These Girls is a sex farce for the twenty-first century as an already offbeat situation builds and builds with hilarious results – including one of the funnier sex scenes you’ll see in a movie. David Boreanaz plays with appropriate exasperation the man who gets what many men might consider a dream scenario until he realizes it’s actually a nightmare, and the three lead actresses portray the naïve vixens with the appropriate innocence and enthusiasm. Having apparently already learned the rule about sharing, the three girls learn the life lessons of responsibility and the consequences that go with acting solely based on your desires. Couched in comedy, These Girls is able to make its point without feeling like a lecture.

-- Dan Krovich

Presented By: John Hazlett

John Hazlett returns to the Maryland Film Festival after appearing in 2000 with his debut feature film, Bad Money. He has also found success as a producer of such films as The Suburbanators and Kitchen Party, both of which found extensive success at film festivals around the world. He is a graduate of Montreal’s Concordia University with a degree in film production, and his early career development includes dry-land farming, raising hogs, construction, crafting fine European furniture, rigorous arts training, guerrilla theatre and the now-legendary experimental jazz ensemble Caboose of Fear. For his next film, John has been working with best-selling writer Guy Vanderhaeghe on an adaptation of Guy’s now classic comic novel My Present Age.