{"product_id":"the-film-club-9780446199308","title":"The Film Club","description":"\u003cb\u003eA warmly witty account of the three years a man spent teaching life lessons to his high school dropout son by showing him the world's best (and occasionally worst) films.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from \u003ci\u003eTrue Romance\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRosemary's Baby\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eShowgirls\u003c\/i\u003e, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Gilmour\u003c\/b\u003e's sixth novel, \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Night to Go to China\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2005 Governor-General's Award for fiction in Canada and has been translated into Russian, French, Thai, Italian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Serbian and Turkish. China and a previous book, \u003ci\u003eLost Between Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, were both nominated for Ontario's Trillium Book Award. His novels have been praised by visionaries from William Burroughs to Northrop Frye, and in publications ranging from \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gilmour worked for the Toronto International Film Festival before moving into a broadcasting career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) where he served as the national film critic for country's flagship news show, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He went on to host his own talk show on CBC's \u003ci\u003eNewsworld, Gilmour on the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Gemini Award. Gilmour's 5,000-word memoir of reading Tolstoy (\u003ci\u003eMy Life with Tolstoy\u003c\/i\u003e) appeared in last summer's issue of the \u003ci\u003eWalrus\u003c\/i\u003e magazine (the \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e of Canada) to huge response and acclaim.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Twelve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669004849426,"sku":"9780446199308","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba19198c-c6f9-477a-87fe-a59bbeb76e72.jpg?v=1733754438","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-film-club-9780446199308","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}