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For his French class assignment, a high school student writes his family history and weaves a real story concerning a terrorist plot into the mix. He stirs up a controversy after he places it on the Internet and invites viewers to comment. Includes featurettes, interviews, alternate scenes, and deleted scenes.

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"For his French class assignment, a high school student writes his family history and weaves a real story concerning a terrorist plot into the mix. He stirs up a controversy after he places it on the Internet and invites viewers to comment. Includes featurettes, interviews, alternate scenes, and deleted scenes."@en
"Simon is a young orphan being raised by his uncle Tom. As his grandfather lay dying, Simon discovers how racist and backwards his uncle is. Simon's grandfather hated Simon's father and claims that he intentionally killed Simon's mother in a car crash. Simon's family narrative is cleverly knit into a news story presented to Simon by his high school French teacher as a translation exercise. The article is read by the teacher about an attempted bombing of an aircraft by a man who put explosives in his pregnant wife's luggage. Simon gets the idea to translate the story and write it from the perspective of the child in the woman's womb. The teacher encourages Simon to develop his story, present it to the class and to the world via the Internet as if he really was that child. The narrative of the car crash and the attempted bombing of the plane become intertwined as a way for the characters to deal with their past experiences. Simon's story takes a twist that involves everyone in his life."
"Simon is a young orphan being raised by his uncle Tom. As his grandfather lay dying, Simon discovers how racist and backwards his uncle is. Simon's grandfather hated Simon's father and claims that he intentionally killed Simon's mother in a car crash. Simon's family narrative is cleverly knit into a news story presented to Simon by his high school French teacher as a translation exercise. The article is read by the teacher about an attempted bombing of an aircraft by a man who put explosives in his pregnant wife's luggage. Simon gets the idea to translate the story and write it from the perspective of the child in the woman's womb. The teacher encourages Simon to develop his story, present it to the class and to the world via the Internet as if he really was that child. The narrative of the car crash and the attempted bombing of the plane become intertwined as a way for the characters to deal with their past experiences. Simon's story takes a twist that involves everyone in his life."@en
"Feature film from Canada. Drama. A High School student weaves a fictional family history into a French translation exercise and posts it on the internet as truth, provoking reactions."
""In Atom Egoyan's best film since The sweet hereafter, Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian), a high school teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story. The betrayal of trust in the story leads her pupil Simon to elaborate his own story based on what he was told about his dead father - a story that then spins off on the internet out of his control. Creating an elaborately patterned plot, Egoyan investigates the nature of family and modern communication, of truth and imagination, as Simon finds out what really happened in the past."--Container."
"Fiction. Drame. Encouragé par son professeur, un adolescent orphelin invente un récit sur les circonstances ayant mené à la mort de ses parents. Bientôt submergé par les réactions provoquées par sa diffusion sur Internet, il tente de retrouver en lui-même la vérité.--[Régie du cinéma]. Avec Kenneth Welsh, Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman."
"Un adolescent orphelin invente sur Internet une histoire rocambolesque : son père a caché une bombe dans la valise de sa femme pour commettre un attentat terroriste. Très vite, les frontières de la fiction et de la réalité se brouillent."
"While trying to find out the truth behind the death of his parents, a high school boy doing a class assignment claims that his father was a terrorist trying to kill his mother and goes in online chat rooms to discuss the controversy that follows his story."@en
"For his French class assignment, a high school student writes his family history and weaves a real story concerning a terrorist plot into the mix. He stirs up a controversy after he places it on the internet and invites viewers to comment. Includes featurettes, and deleted scenes."@en
"For his French class assignment, a high school student writes his family history and weaves a real story concerning a terrorist plot into the mix. He stirs up a controversy after he places it on the internet and invites viewers to comment."
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"For his French class assignment, a high school student writes his family history and weaves a real story concerning a terrorist plot into the mix. He stirs up a controversy after he places it on the internet and invites viewers to comment."@en