When English teacher/frustrated novelist Ben (Joshua Jackson) learns
he’s suffering from stage-four cancer, he does what any self-respecting
movie flake would: he buys a motorcycle, casts off his boring life and
sets out for adventure—looking to “embrace randomness” and “searching
for moments.” On his road trip, he has the quintessential Canadian
experience—or at least the kind you’d expect him to have in an
unimaginative movie like One Week, full of Tim Hortons cups,
indie music, the northern lights and magical aboriginal drum-beating.
Ben learns important lessons about his life, and death; Campbell Scott
provides omniscient, pretentious narration, so we can, too!
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2009.
