Don McKellarFilmography

Leslie, My Name is Evil

Actors: Gregory Smith, Kristen Hager, Ryan Robbins

Synopsis: A straight-laced chemist begins questioning society's standards and confronting his own darkest desires after falling for the all-American homecoming queen who joined a hippie death cult and made headlines for her murderous exploits. Perry (Gregory Smith) is your typical God-fearing American: A Read More

Blindness

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is Read More

Cooking with Stella

Actors: Don McKellar, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Vansh Bhardwaj, Shriya Saran

Synopsis: A woman who has learned a few things about taking care of herself runs the risk of having her tricks found out in this comedy-drama. Stella (Seema Biswas) works as a domestic in New Delhi and has used her fluency in English and skills as a cook to wrangle a job as housekeeper for Canada's Read More

Clean

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar

Synopsis: A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Read More

Monkey Warfare

Actors: Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz

Synopsis: A pair of pot-smoking Toronto bohemians whose dealer has just been busted are shaken from their stoned complacency by a mysterious young radical in director Reginald Harkema's contemporary urban comedy. Dan (Don McKellar) and Linda (Tracy Wright) spend their days scavenging the local garbage dumps Read More

Slings & Arrows: Season 03

Actors: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns

Childstar

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Don McKellar, Mark Rendall

Synopsis: Childstar concerns an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of his impending teenage years. When Taylor disappears one day Read More

Slings & Arrows: Season 02

Actors: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns

The Event

Actors: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Brent Carver

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald directs the sentimental ensemble drama The Event. Nick (Parker Posey) is a district attorney investigating several deaths in the gay community of New York City's Chelsea District. It seems that many AIDS sufferers have died under similar mysterious Read More

Slings & Arrows: Season 01

Actors: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns

Waydowntown

Actors: Fab Filippo, Don McKellar, Marya Delver, Gordon Currie, Jennifer Clement

Synopsis: Office workers existing in varying states of disgruntlement/insanity, Tom, Sandra, Randy, and Curt bet a month's salary to see who can stay indoors the longest. Since their office is located in a downtown area, where almost all of the buildings are connected by a system of glass-enclosed bridges Read More

I Was a Rat

Actors: Calum Worthy, Tom Conti, Brenda Fricker, Katie Blake, James Millard

Synopsis: Based on the children's book by Philip Pullman, Laurie Lynd's I Was a Rat is a feature-length fable originally made as a three-part BBC miniseries. A reworking of a popular fairy tale, the story opens with a young abandoned pageboy (Calum Worthy) taken in by a childless couple: the aging cobbler Read More

Rub & Tug

Actors: Lindy Booth, Kira Clavell, Don McKellar, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Susanna Sutchy

Synopsis: Convinced that his employees are secretly engaging in sexual acts with the customers, untrusting full body massage parlor owner Lawrence (Richard Zeppieri) attempts to cement his suspicions by hiring new manager Conrad (Don McKeller) to investigate his employees. A seemingly placid and incompetent Read More

The Art of Woo

Actors: Sook-Yin Lee, Adam Beach, Joel S. Keller, Alberta Watson, John Gilbert

Synopsis: Toronto-based indie filmmaker Helen Lee spins this frothy romantic comedy about an ersatz glamour girl who unexpectedly gets what she wants. Concealing her working-class upbringing, young, ambitious Alessa Woo (Sook-Yin Lee) poses as a high-rolling Asian heiress, even though she lives in a Read More

Twitch City: Season 02

Actors: Don McKellar, Daniel MacIvor, Molly Parker, Callum Keith Rennie, Mark McKinney

Last Night

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg

Synopsis: Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. Set in Toronto, Patrick (McKellar) endures a faux Christmas celebration with his family while Sandra (Sandra Oh) tries to get across town to commit Read More

The Red Violin

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy Read More

eXistenZ

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Don McKellar

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, who has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates the human beings who believe they are its masters, is in familiar territory with eXistenZ, a futuristic thriller which combines elements of science fiction, horror and Read More

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Actors: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: The private life of celebrated author and philosopher Ayn Rand takes center stage in this film produced for the Showtime cable network. In 1951, Ayn Rand (Helen Mirren) is a best-selling author and celebrated thinker when she meets Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz) and his friend Barbara (Julie Delpy Read More

Twitch City: Season 01

Actors: Don McKellar, Daniel MacIvor, Molly Parker, Callum Keith Rennie, Bruce McCulloch

The Herd

Actors: Colm Feore, David Hemblen, Mark McKinney, Don McKellar, Jim Allodi

Synopsis: Peter Lynch directed this Canadian docudrama about events after the Canadian government authorized Laplander Andrew Bahr to feed starving Inuit in 1929 by herding several thousand reindeer from Alaska to the McKenzie River region. The project turned into a logistical nightmare, with six years Read More

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

Actors: Eric Thal, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Jason Cadieux, Waneta Storms

Synopsis: Writer/director Peter Wellington's Joe's So Mean to Josephine tracks the slow unraveling of a dysfunctional relationship. Josephine (Sarah Polley from Go), a smart but immature college girl living in Toronto, is out drinking with some friends when she sees Joe (Eric Thal) sitting at the bar. Joe Read More

Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Jan Rubes, George Sperdakos

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elina Löwensohn, Don McKellar, Charles Dance, Chad Lowe

Synopsis: Rod Serling's sobering drama, originally shown on Playhouse 90, is re-made in this made-for-cable movie. The setting is the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, where Jews are either carted off to Nazi death camps or left to die in the disease-ridden squalor of the streets. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Rabbi Read More

Never Met Picasso

Synopsis: This gay-oriented drama centers on the life and exploits of Andrew, an aspiring painter. Still living at home with his mother Genna, an avant garde actress, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Read More

When Night Is Falling

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny, David Fox, Tracy Wright

Synopsis: This Canadian drama tells the tale of Camille, who works at an uptight Protestant college as a professor of mythology. She has been going out with career theologian Martin for three years, but it appears her real true love is her dog, Bob. Bob dies in a tragic car accident and poor Camille is Read More

Camilla

Actors: Jessica Tandy, Bridget Fonda, Elias Koteas, Maury Chaykin, Graham Greene

Synopsis: Jessica Tandy made one of her final screen appearances in this comic road movie. Freda (Bridget Fonda) is a would-be singer and songwriter who would like a career as a performer but lacks the courage; it doesn't help that her husband Vincent (Elias Koteas), a graphic artist, keeps insisting that Read More

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Derek Keurvost, Colm Feore, Gale Garnett, Katya Ladan, Gerry Quigley

Synopsis: The highly acclaimed and famously eccentric classical pianist Glenn Gould is the subject of this idiosyncratic film portrait. As the title suggests, Gould's life is explored through a series of thirty-two self-contained but interrelated vignettes, a structure inspired by Bach's "Goldberg Read More

Exotica

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Victor Garber

Synopsis: The action in Canadian provocateur Atom Egoyan's cryptic Exotica revolves largely around the strip club, which lends the film its name, a faux-tropical hothouse where young female dancers cater to their customers' sexual and psychological needs. Among the regulars is Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a Read More

Dance Me Outside

Crew: 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

The Adjuster

Actors: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, The Adjuster is an examination of the sexual quirks of a married couple. Starring such Egoyan regulars as Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, and Don McKellar, the film focuses on Noah Render (Koteas), an insurance adjuster who Read More

Highway 61

Crew: 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

Blue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Roadkill

Crew: Screenwriter

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