Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can't stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder." Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this: Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of "intestinal fortitude and willpower," Lyle manages to convince David that ...
The indie centers on a South Asian family in Toronto and the suburb of Scarborough. Ash is caught between two worlds he must constantly traverse, one that of an aspiring writer in Toronto and that of his family in the immigrant-rich suburb of Scarborough.
This is about Adam (45) owns a kennel. He is a profoundly good and generous, almost naive, man who struggles with depression and eco-anxiety. Via the technical support number for a light therapy lamp he recently purchased, he meets Tina (45), a settled, i