Breakfast with scot
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| German title | Breakfast with scot |
| Original title | Breakfast with Scot |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
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| Director | Laurie Lynd |
| script |
Michael Downing , Sean Reycraft |
| production |
Paul Brown , Howard Rosenman |
| music | Robert Carli |
| camera | David A. Makin |
| cut | Susan Shipton |
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Breakfast with Scot (Original Title: Breakfast with Scot ) is a Canadian film comedy the director Laurie Lynd from the year 2007 . The film is based on a novel by Michael Downing ( Tufts University ).
action
Eric, an ex- hockey player the Toronto Maple Leafs and current sports journalist, lives with his husband Sam, a lawyer for sports rights. Both of them routinely live on the outskirts and try as best they can to hide their homosexuality . That changed suddenly, on the day they took in the 11-year-old orphan boy Scot, who recently lost his mother to an overdose and is anything but normal. For Eric and Sam it is difficult to keep up with the eye-catching, feminine and colorful world of Scot, who prefers musicals and fancy clothes to typical boys' things.
Eric later talks to Sam about Scot's behavior. He expresses the suspicion that Scot might be gay .
Scot embarrassed himself on the first day at his new school when he began to cry while reading a story. But he makes new friends when Eric picks him up from school. A small present from Eric's colleague makes him happy again and his humiliation is forgotten again.
At the end of October the children are at school and dressed up for Halloween . Scot dresses up as a scarecrow. However, he does not typically make up like a scarecrow, but elegantly with lipstick and mascara. With the statement that he is "but a beautiful scarecrow" . Eric sees the only way out to throw away all of Scot's jewelry and cosmetics.
Eric gets Scot interested in ice hockey and signs him up with an ice hockey club. The coach recognizes Eric the professional ice hockey player and employs him as an assistant coach who teaches his adoptive son and the other kids how to ice hockey. Some of his classmates are on the team too, earning Scot respect from friends and his foster father. When he attacks his friend at the beginning of a game, Eric is shocked and has to brake Sam.
At Christmas, the useless Billy appears, Sam's brother and the ex-boyfriend of Scots mother, to whom this has transferred custody of Scot even though he is not his father, and wants to bring him to Brazil. But Billy isn't really interested in how Scot is doing. As a farewell, Eric and Sam throw a Christmas farewell party for Scot. He apologizes to the friends he has hurt.
As a surprise for Scot, Billy has brought a new friend who, among other things, will serve as Scot's new mother . Scot's first scared when he sees the woman and comes back to the subject of Billy not paying attention to how much Scot has changed, something that only Eric noticed. Scot realizes that he doesn't want to go to Brazil, and with the help of Billy's girlfriend, he can be convinced that Scot will stay with Eric and Sam.
background
- The film Breakfast with Scot won the Lesbian Gay Film Festival in Hamburg and the Directors Guild of Canada Team Award for best international feature film.
- Canadian actor Tom Cavanagh is himself the main actor in the sitcom Ed - The Bowling Lawyer and played the brother of the main character JD in several episodes of the popular sitcom Scrubs