Bruce McDonald Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

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The Tracey Fragments

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Ellen Page, Ari Cohen, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Max Turnbull

Synopsis: A 15-year-old girl navigates a dangerous urban landscape in search of the brother whom she has hypnotized into believing he is a dog in director Bruce McDonald's pop-infused, 21st century variation on The Catcher in the Rye. When the viewer first meets Tracey (Juno's Ellen Page), she is sitting Read More

5/9/08
Killer Wave

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen McHattie, Tom Skerritt, Angus MacFadyen, Karine Vanasse

Synopsis: A series of massive tidal waves decimate the entire East Coast, leading a renegade expert on man made ecological disasters and weapons of mass destruction to suspect that a force far more human than Mother Nature is at work in this terrifying mini-series starring Angus Macfayden, Tom Skerritt, and Read More

2006
The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess

Crew: Director

Actors: Joely Collins, Hugh Dillon, Ben Bass, Natallia White, Jessica Amlee

Synopsis: Joely Collins (daughter of singer Phil Collins) stars in this film about the real-life 1995 murder trial in which juror Gillian Guess began sleeping with one of the defendants. Finally getting the attention she has craved since childhood, Gillian appears on a sleazy late-night talk show to tell Read More

2004
Queer as Folk: Episode 031

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Brian (Gale Harold) and Justin (Randy Harrison) engage in some group sex. Later, Brian's sister, Claire (Kirsten Kieferle), pays a visit and insists that Brian help her take care of their mother (Lynne Deragon). When Brian reluctantly takes his mom to church, he's a little surprised to learn that Read More

2002
Queer as Folk: Episode 028

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ted (Scott Lowell) has his gay porn website, "Jerkatwork.net," up and running. While it's just live streaming video of guys pleasuring themselves, Ted naturally thought to include a "boss screen" to protect those who visit the site while they should be working. Michael (Hal Sparks) has a lot of Read More

2002
Queer as Folk: Episode 038

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Michael (Hal Sparks) decides to throw Ben (Robert Gant) a surprise birthday party, and steals his Palm Pilot so he can get phone numbers for all of Ben's friends. Despite Ben's expressed desire to celebrate quietly, Michael enlists Emmett (Peter Paige) to design a big Far East-themed soiree. Read More

2002
Picture Claire

Crew: Director

Actors: Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Callum Keith Rennie, Kelly Harms, Camilla Rutherford

Synopsis: Canadian cult director Bruce McDonald spins this slick noir-thriller about an innocent outsider caught up in the gritty underworld of Toronto. After narrowly escaping her East End Montréal apartment getting torched by a sadistic motorcycle gang, Claire (Juliette Lewis) flees for Toronto where she Read More

2001
The Life and Times of Robbie Robertson

Crew: Director

2001
Verlorene Flugel

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gudrun Okras, Peter Franke

2000
Stuff

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Max Danger, Sandra Guerard, Maureen Burgoyne, Joe Sather, Winston Spear

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker James Dunnison directs this campy horror flick about a guy and his mother. Scrawny, leather-clad Phillip (Max Danger) is a misfit living in the basement of his mother's Toronto townhouse. Her bullying ways push him over the edge, and Phillip blows her away. Fortunately, he comes Read More

1999
Hard Core Logo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bruce McDonald directed this mock-documentary (and appears onscreen as himself) which looks at a veteran punk rock band taking one final stab at the big time. Singer Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon), guitarist Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie), bassist John Oxenberger (John Pyper-Fergson), and drummer Read More

11/13/98
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Lee, Peter Riegert, James Farentino, Sherry Miller, Barbara Parkins

Synopsis: The flamboyant novelist who brought the world such deathless literary masterpieces as Valley of the Dolls and Once is Not Enough is the subject of this made-for-cable biopic. Michele Lee stars as Jacqueline Susann, a second-string actress and well-known party girl who turned to journalism after Read More

1998
Mr. Holland's Opus

Crew: Choreography

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy

Synopsis: A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance. However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own Read More

1995
Dance Me Outside

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ryan Rajendra Black, Adam Beach, Michael Greyeyes, Jennifer Podemski, Lisa LaCroix, Kevin Hicks

Synopsis: This Canadian drama based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between Indians and Anglos in Canada from an Indian perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course in Toronto with his friend Frank Fencepost. But before he can enroll Read More

1994
Highway 61

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagiar, Earl Pastko, Jello Biafra

Synopsis: Highway 61 is an offbeat, comedic road movie about a small-town Canadian barber (Don McKellar) who finds a dead body. When a woman claiming to be the corpse's roadie sister (Valerie Buhagiar), arrives in town, he agrees to drive her and the body from Ontario to New Orleans, following Highway 61 Read More

4/24/92
Blue

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Canadian actor/screenwriter Don McKellar first cut his teeth as a director with this ironic short film, starring friend and frequent collaborator David Cronenberg. Not to be confused with either Derek Jarman's or Krzysztof Kieslowski's film of the same name, the 22-minute Blue intersperses scenes Read More

1992
Roadkill

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Valerie Buhagiar, Gerry Quigley, Larry Hudson, Bruce McDonald

Synopsis: Like its title, Roadkill is a little flat and moldy at times, but generally effective. Concert promoter Valerie Buhagiar decides to look for a legendary "lost" band called The Children of Paradise, in hopes of staging a lucrative comeback tour. Buhagiar's odyssey takes her through the backroads of Read More

1989
Speaking Parts

Crew: Editor

Actors: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, David Hemblen, Patricia Collins

Synopsis: "In my films, you're always encouraged to remember that you're watching a collection of designed images." Thus spake Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan in describing his calculatedly non-realistic style. In keeping with his earlier works, Egoyan's Speaking Parts, though grounded in reality, could Read More

1989
Scissere

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Sandy MacFayden

Synopsis: Opening with shots of landscapes and the sky -- and leading to the exploits of a drug addict, a young mother, and an elderly scientist -- this avant-garde film by Peter Mettler uses all the techniques of stop- and slow-motion cinematography, plus other staples of the genre to produce some Read More

1983