The Rhino Brothers

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United States Premiere Using astounding Sony digital technologies, director Dwayne Beaver's The Rhino Brothers is an absorbing drama about the sport of ice hockey and the powerful effects it has on the souls of the Kanachowski family. Brothers Sasha and Victor play with The Rhinos, each filling his respective role as the failed pro-leaguer and coach. Their younger brother, Stefan, returns home ready to let the family know that he is planning the ultimate sin-give up hockey. Unable to say he has quit, he tells his family that he has been cut. Their overbearing and fanatical hockey-mom forces him to join The Rhinos. The three brothers, whose differences are quite apparent, are united on the ice, but each has his own agenda. And as the three men struggle, their mother's obsession with having a big league son threatens to tear the family apart. As the mom from hell, Gabrielle Rose is quietly terrifying, peeling back the layers of gushing support to reveal the compulsive, desperate core of a woman so fiercely fixated on a dream that she has turned it into a nightmare. Debut director Beaver has crafted a richly character-driven film packed with subtly subversive insight into the dark side of the Canadian dream. Preceded by: Papal Cab (Kevin Susman, 12 min., USA) A man is having troubles at work and at home and is in need of spiritual guidance. Without the time to go to church, what's a person to do? Hail the Papal Cab!