Don McKellar Trailers
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Don McKellar CM (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
He is known for directing and writing the film Last Night, which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, as well as his screenplays for films such as Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, and Blindness. McKellar frequently acts in his own projects, and has also appeared in Atom Egoyan's Exotica and David Cronenberg's eXistenZ and Crimes of the Future.
He is also known for being a fixture on Canadian television, with series including Twitch City, Odd Job Jack, and Slings & Arrows, as well as writing the book for the popular Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone. He is an eight-time nominee and two-time Genie Award winner.
Most Popular Don McKellar Trailers
Total trailers found: 71
24 September 2025
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
19 March 2010
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.
12 August 2010
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them.
12 September 1998
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
12 September 2019
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.
10 January 1992
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
18 January 1997
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be.
13 September 2013
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend.
12 September 1992
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
14 December 2017
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).
10 September 2006
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.
31 March 2016
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
01 January 2003
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life.
24 October 1997
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
05 September 1991
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans.
21 June 1999
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad.
01 September 2004
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
14 April 1999
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
23 October 1998
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
14 May 2008
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
16 November 2007
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
25 May 2022
With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
10 September 2002
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients.
29 September 1994
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor.
13 November 1998
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake.
31 March 2002
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history.
28 March 2014
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
15 November 2000
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival.
01 February 1995
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor.
10 September 2004
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
27 November 1991
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
10 March 2017
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris.
20 April 2012
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.
30 August 2017
A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful Instagram celebrity.
10 July 2020
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
25 January 2002
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls.
01 August 2000
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
07 October 2005
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
14 September 2009
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder.
30 May 2014
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying.
07 September 2000
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good".
28 November 1997
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya.
10 June 2013
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious.
09 September 2001
Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.
01 January 2004
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
14 September 2016
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated with one another, revolving around one another in their own orbits.
12 September 2010
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
19 January 2003
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS.
27 January 1999
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
15 July 2016
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
25 November 1994
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin.
09 December 2001
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat.
29 March 2019
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
30 September 2020
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
26 November 1993
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
24 October 2025
Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps leads to a sleepless night full of uncanny occurrences.
01 January 1994
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.
17 September 2021
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
07 September 2000
Don McKellar’s autobiographical, wryly comic short looks at Toronto International Film Festival–goers’ fierce desire to get into a screening.
