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Patch Town is the feature film directorial debut from Canadian filmmaker, Craig Goodwill. In 2012, Patch Town, which was an original short by Goodwill, won the Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Best Short. In the full-length treatment, Goodwill explores the original story and its characters in greater detail as an adventurous dark comedy. The film stars a group of up-and-coming talents from Canada in Rob Ramsy, Jon Cor, Zoie Palmer, with Julian Richings and comedian, Scott Thompson.
In North American folklore the stork delivers babies, but in Russian folklore, babies are born in the cabbage patch. Inspired by the award-winning short film of the same name, PATCH TOWN tells the story of Jon (Rob Ramsay), who has lived a sad life as an oppressed worker at a factory where hundreds of cabbage babies are born. Work on the assembly line is a thankless task of shucking, picking, and processing newborns to go out into the world and to their new adoptive mothers. But when Jon discovers the awful secret that he and all the indentured workers are actually grown-up and discarded toys, he’ll have to take on a villainous corporation to reunite with his long-lost mother, protect his newfound family, and finally find freedom.
When asked whether or not his first stab at a feature film was too ambitious, Goodwill responded by saying “I’d rather die on a fence too high than live under one too low.”
Patch Town is rated PG.
