The Movie Man

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The Movie Man introduces us to colorful entrepreneur Keith Stata owning and operating an idiosyncratic 5-cinema multiplex cinema/movie museum in a forest of northern Ontario in a town of 200 people. Stata opened Highlands Cinemas during the summer of 1979. He has toiled against the odds to build his cinema into a magical place where people come from far and wide to experience a unique movie-going experience. In a good year, the cinemas host over 50,000 patrons! Despite his steadfast passion, we follow Keith as he is beaten down with health issues and with no family and just a few friends around to help, Keith is confronted with insurmountable challenges of keeping his unlikely cinema open for another season at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. After 40 years in business, the future of his quixotic cinema becomes more and more uncertain as the film unfolds.