TIFF 2012 - My Awkward Sexual Adventure

This movie was way more fun than I expected it to be.  Funny and touching and very cute.

Writer/producer/star Jonas Chernick has spent almost 12 years working to get his film made and he and his entire cast seem happy and excited about the end result.  My Awkward Sexual Adventure is a story about a man who needs to grow up in many ways.  Jordan (Chernick) is an accountant who is kicked out of his Winnipeg apartment by his sexually frustrated (falling asleep during sex frustrated), self involved and somewhat selfish girlfriend and sent off to Toronto where he proceeds to try to figure out how to get her back by finding a sexual Yoda.  Helping him out are his player of a friend Dandak (Vik Sahay...who will always be Lester to me...RIP Chuck) and a down on her financial luck stripper Julia (Emily Hampshire).

As Julia tries to help Jordan figure out how to be a better lover she gets him into all sorts of uncomfortable situations, which for him include a visit to a 'massage parlour' and dressed up in drag.  As Jordan tries to help Julia figure out her financial mess he gets her into all sorts of uncomfortable situations, which for her include a visit to her bank manager and reviewing a budget.   Layer over that Dandak finding himself in the new situation of actually being in a relationship and Jordan's girlfriend hopping a plane to Toronto to confront him and you have a recipe for total awkwardness.

Chernick, director Sean Garrity and castmembers Emily Hampshire, Vik Sahay, Sarah Manninen and Andrea del Campo attended and held a Q&A after the screening.  (And this is how you know it's a Canadian film...when the entire cast shows up for the 2nd screening of TIFF)  There was a lot of discussion about onscreen nudity, filming sex scenes that actually look like sex and one particular prosthetic from the film.  Also comments about casting, the process of getting the film made and what Chernick's mother thinks of the film (she's a financial backer, and loves it for the record).  The movie is scheduled to get a theatrical release (at least in Canada) and will definitely show up on the movie network at some point.  Totally worth seeing (B+).