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Uh, I'’m just--I'm not sure that my background
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Oh, Canada

Uh, I'’m just--I'm not surethat my background-- If you'’re thinkingof your literary...

Uh, I'’m just--I'm not sure
that my background-- If you'’re thinking
of your literary ambitions, you don'’t need to give that up

Full Transcript

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Uh, I'’m just--I'm not sure that my background--
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If you'’re thinking of your literary ambitions,
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you don'’t need to give that up.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
46
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:49
Uploaded
Apr 05, 2025
Genres
drama
Production
Arclight Films,Vested Interest,Ottocento Films,Left Home Productions,Exemplary Films,Carte Blanche,One Two Twenty Entertainment,SIPUR,Northern Lights Films

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Movie Summary

Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Wallace Stevens ran an insurance company - Oh, Canada 00:07
Wallace Stevens ran an insurance company
Herman Melville, your favorite, - Oh, Canada 00:07
Herman Melville, your favorite,
I mean, that certainly gives me a lot to, uh, - Oh, Canada 00:06
I mean, that certainly gives me a lot to, uh,
We can hold off Beech and Nettleson - Oh, Canada 00:07
We can hold off Beech and Nettleson
[chuckling] - Oh, Canada 00:08
[chuckling]
[soft music playing] - Oh, Canada 00:08
[soft music playing]
[Leo] My head was still spinning - Oh, Canada 00:06
[Leo] My head was still spinning
As the Viet Cong mounted attacks - Oh, Canada 00:09
As the Viet Cong mounted attacks
I told Alicia what her father and uncle had offered me. - Oh, Canada 00:05
I told Alicia what her father and uncle had offered me.
Yeah, they told me that if I came out as an executive, - Oh, Canada 00:10
Yeah, they told me that if I came out as an executive,
They would stay on for a transition - Oh, Canada 00:05
They would stay on for a transition
They didn'’t talk about money or stock options or anything. - Oh, Canada 00:06
They didn'’t talk about money or stock options or anyth...
That'’s the last thing I expected from those two. - Oh, Canada 00:05
That'’s the last thing I expected from those two.
I thought, you know, to them I was, like, - Oh, Canada 00:05
I thought, you know, to them I was, like,
Genteel Southern white politics. - Oh, Canada 00:06
Genteel Southern white politics.
Dad must have talked to Mom about this. - Oh, Canada 00:05
Dad must have talked to Mom about this.
No, I'’d be drunk or dead before I hit my mid-30s. - Oh, Canada 00:07
No, I'’d be drunk or dead before I hit my mid-30s.
Oh, Dad barely spent five hours a day at Dr. Todd'’s. - Oh, Canada 00:05
Oh, Dad barely spent five hours a day at Dr. Todd'’s.
[Leo sighs] - Oh, Canada 00:07
[Leo sighs]
[male singer] ♪ A coward this morning ♪ - Oh, Canada 00:08
[male singer] ♪ A coward this morning ♪