Who Loves the Sun is a 2006 Canadian comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

/drama

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

/romance film

Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 directed

Film director

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 and written

Screenwriter

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 by Matt Bissonnette.

Plot

Will Morrison (Lukas Haas

Lukas Haas

Lukas Daniel Haas is an American actor, known for roles both as a child and as an adult. His career has spanned more than 25 years during which time he has appeared in more than 36 feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions.-Early life and career:Haas was born...

) and Daniel Bloom (Adam Scott

Adam Scott (actor)

Adam Scott is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Henry Pollard in the Starz comedy series Party Down and as Ben Wyatt in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation....

) were the best of friends. They grew up together, went to the same schools, liked the same records, loved the same girls. Daniel was Will’s best man at his wedding to Maggie Claire (Molly Parker

Molly Parker

Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood.Parker won a Genie Award in 1997 as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Kissed...

). Then one day Will disappeared without a word. Five years later, he re-surfaces and sets off a tsunami of unforeseeable events.

The film was shot in the Canadian Shield

Canadian Shield

The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier Canadien , is a vast geological shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American or Laurentia craton. It is an area mostly composed of igneous rock which relates to its long volcanic history...

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Awards

• 2006 AFI Fest - Grand Jury Prize - Nominated - Matt Bissonnette
• 2007 WorldFest Houston - Bronze Award for Best Film - Won
• 2007 Beverly Hills Film Festival for Best Female Performance - Molly Parker - Won
• 2007 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
  Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
  The Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian actress.-1st Genie Awards:* Kate Lynch, Meatballs* Louise Portal, Cordélia...
  
   - Nominated - Molly Parker
• 2008 Mississauga Independent Film Festival - Best Feature Film - Won
• 2011 Film North – Huntsville International Film Festival - Film North Best Feature Award - Won