Oh, Canada (2024)

As he did with 1997’s Affliction, writer-director Paul Schrader turns to the work of author Russell Banks for this newest screen adaptation starring Richard Gere as an acclaimed left-wing documentarian named Leonard Fife. Leonard, recently diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer, is now stepping in front of the camera as the subject of someone else’s documentary - that of his proteges Malcolm (Michael Imperioli) and Diana (Victoria Hill). One of sixty thousand men who dodged the draft by heading across the border to Canada during the Vietnam War, Leonard takes an in-depth walk through his past, sharing his memories of his early indiscretions with the filmmakers and his present wife Emma (Uma Thurman), played out by both Gere and Jacob Elordi as his younger self. Jacob and his mustache have the fun job of getting hot and heavy with Uma in front of a fire and banging Megan MacKenzie, who flashes some T’n’A, in bed. Do we wish Uma brought her boobs and butt to this party too? Oh, Cana-duh!