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November 16, 2007
Cavanagh raises bar
Admirers of director Laurie Lynd — whose work with Daniel MacIvor produced the glittery 1990s fantasias The Fairy Who Didn’t Want To Be A Fairy Any More and House — may be surprised to see him at the helm of a conventional film like Breakfast With Scot. But that’s kind of the point, really. Read the complete review here.

November 16, 2007
'Breakfast With Scot': Playing for the other team
by Peter Howell
You know that Breakfast With Scot is on to something real when a member of a same-sex union makes a homophobic statement to his partner. Suddenly all those old movie clichés dissolve. Read the complete review here.

Leaf fans get new surprise after Tlusty photo affair
by Rob Salem
Leaf Nation traditionalists are in for another shocker. If naked photos of rookie Jiri Tlusty being posted on the Internet and lurid front-page tabloid play for a photo of him apparently touching tongues with another guy weren't enough to add to the angst of the team's mediocre start to the season, along comes a movie about a former team member who is – gulp – gay. Read the complete article here.

November 16, 2007
Movie scores with goalies and glitter
by Jennie Punter
The comfortable status-quo relationship of a gay couple is turned upside down — and festooned with feather boas and glitter — when they become guardians of a flamboyant 11-year-old in this contemporary family feature, adapted from the award-winning novel by American author Michael Downing. Directed by Toronto-based Laurie Lynd (House, I Was a Rat), who has a deft hand for family fare, with a snappy screenplay by Sean Reycraft, the film moves the novel's setting from the Boston area to Toronto, further Canuckifying it by — surprise, surprise — making hockey an inextricable part of the story. Read the complete review here.

November 16, 2007
Leafs logo used in gay-themed film
by Jim Slotek
Let others congratulate the Toronto Maple Leafs -- or criticise them in some cases -- for being the first major-league sports franchise ever to lend their logo to a gay-themed movie. Tom Cavanagh, who stars in Breakfast With Scot -- about a gay ex-Leaf and his partner who adopt a young boy -- is mainly thankful that they made his job easier.

November 15, 2007
Scot seeks mainstream audiences
by Marise Strauss
Director Laurie Lynd was skeptical about opening Breakfast with Scot during the holidays. His gay-themed comedy arrives Friday, one week into the Hollywood holiday rush that began with Fred Claus last week and continues this week with the Dustin Hoffman-starrer Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Read the complete article here.

September 13, 2007
'Gay hockey movie' hopes to score despite vicious remarks
Director Laurie Lynd says he's shocked by the hateful comments aimed at his “sweet film” about tolerance — Breakfast with Scot, or the “gay hockey movie” as it has been dubbed. But if the movie can score at the box office as a result, Lynd says he doesn't mind. Read the complete article here.

November 24, 2006
Movie features gay Leaf NHL, Leafs give flick full support
Due out in theatres next December
by Randy Starkman, Sports Reporter
The appearance of the first gay Toronto Maple Leaf will be groundbreaking, even if it is only in celluloid. Actor Tom Cavanaugh plays a gay ex-Leaf in a comedy film Breakfast With Scot currently being shot in the GTA and Hamilton. He’s one-half of a homosexual couple – his partner is the team lawyer – whose lives are turned upside down after becoming guardians of Scot, “a budding queen of an 11-year-old boy,” according to the storyline.

News Release

CUTTING EDGE COMEDY MAKES THE BIG LEAGUE
NHL ENDORSES NEW FEATURE FILM
Toronto, ON (February 6, 2007) –

Miracle Pictures and Capri Releasing announce the release of their feature comedy BREAKFAST WITH SCOT.
Laurie Lynd (‘I Was a Rat’, ‘Noah’s Arc’) directed Sean Reycraft’s script based on Michael Downing’s novel. A funny and touching story about what—and who—makes a family and the surprising lessons of self-acceptance a child can teach an adult, BREAKFAST WITH SCOT stars Tom Cavanagh (‘Ed’, ‘Scrubs’), Ben Shenkman (‘Just Like Heaven’, ‘Angels in America’) and newcomer Noah Bernett (‘Gothica’) as Scot. Paul Brown produced and Howard Rosenman and Nadine Schiff executive produced the film. Capri Releasing/Mongrel Media is handling domestic distribution. Production assistance was provided by Telefilm Canada, The Ontario Media Development Corporation, The Harold Greenberg Fund and Movie Central. The twenty-five day shoot in and around Toronto wrapped on December 15, 2006. BREAKFAST WITH SCOT is about a very “straight” gay couple - Sam (Ben Shenkman) a lawyer, and Eric (Tom Cavanagh), an ex-NHL player-turned-sportscaster, whose lifestyle and relationship are turned upside down when they become the temporary guardians of Scot (Noah Bernett), an unexpectedly excitable, pink preferring, ascotwearing, kind of girly boy. Reluctant to get involved in the first place, Sam and Eric find themselves in conflict with each other about bringing Scot into their already full lives. Feelings change, however, as the pair are caught off-guard by this unique young character who is joyously and unashamedly himself. This thoughtful comedy takes a look at homosexuality in professional sports and society’s resistance to accepting gay heroes. The National Hockey League has taken a progressive step by endorsing BREAKFAST WITH SCOT and granting the production rights to use NHL and Toronto Maple Leafs’
names and logos in the film. Paul Brown says: "I am thrilled to be making a film that is groundbreaking, entertaining, and about something. We've crafted a fantastically accessible story from Michael Downing's wonderful novel. A budding film, a budding director, a budding queen of an 11 year old. Lots of fun."

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