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Bruce McDonald
Director 67 years old

Bruce McDonald

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He is known for his award-winning cult films Roadkill (1989) and Hard Core Logo (1996). He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as... Read full bio →

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9 titles
Hellions

Hellions

Bruce McDonald 2015 1h 20m 3.0

A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.

This Movie Is Broken

This Movie Is Broken

Bruce McDonald 2010 1h 25m

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash.

Hard Core Logo 2

Hard Core Logo 2

Bruce McDonald 2010 1h 34m

Bruce McDonald’s long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has relocated to L.A. and scored a profitable gig as a TV director. When the show he’s been working on is suddenly put on hiatus, Bruce is at loose ends.

Pontypool

Pontypool

Bruce McDonald 2008 1h 36m 7.1

A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.

The Tracey Fragments

The Tracey Fragments

Bruce McDonald 2007 1h 17m 6.3

Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend.

Hard Core Logo

Hard Core Logo

Bruce McDonald 1996 1h 32m

Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.

Dance Me Outside

Dance Me Outside

Bruce McDonald 1994 1h 24m

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug.

Highway 61

Highway 61

Bruce McDonald 1991 1h 43m

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. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Roadkill

Roadkill

Bruce McDonald 1989 1h 25m 7.0

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.

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