A brand new movie by Toronto actor and director Tony Marra and Trovare Movies can have runners all over the place grinning in recognition.

The title character in Billy Runs Boston? is Billy Russo–a middle-aged man (performed by Marra) who works a menial job whereas caring for his almost non-verbal brother and residing below the thumb of their embittered sister. He is an easy soul who runs, like many people, primarily to flee (nevertheless briefly) his private circumstances. 

Someday, a fellow runner in Billy’s loosely-constituted working membership means that he ought to attempt to qualify for Boston, and this provides Billy a brand new sense of goal. His well-meaning mates assist him out with reward playing cards and hand-me-downs, and Billy turns into obsessed together with his quest. However there are penalties: he begins neglecting his brother’s care, and, as so typically occurs in actual life, harm strikes. What occurs subsequent is saved hidden from viewers till the top, when the explanation for the query mark within the title can be revealed.

Billy Runs Boston has all the acquainted working tropes: the lengths individuals will go to qualify for Boston. The fartleks, hill repeats, tempo runs and intervals. The chafing. The connection between working and social media. The spectacular collections of Nineteen Eighties race T-shirts. The outrageous costs for carbon-plated trainers. The recommendation to RICE a harm (relaxation, ice, compression, elevation). And, after all, the Holy Grail of marathoners–i.e., qualifying for Boston, and the lengths some individuals will go to to attain it. It pokes mild enjoyable at how ridiculous runners will be, whereas highlighting working’s true backside line: most of us, like Billy, run as a result of it makes us really feel good. 

 

The movie is stuffed with recognizable Toronto working areas–and even an actual working store. 

Toronto runners can benefit from the movie at a screening on Nov. 11 at 3 p.m.on the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles Ave. (click on right here to purchase tickets). There are additionally screenings scheduled in London, UK on Nov. 4 and at Ottawa’s Bytown Theatre on Nov. 23.