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The best laid plans [videorecording (DVD)] : the complete series.

distributed by Entertainment One, 2014.

Canada. Parliament -- Officials and employees -- Drama.

Political satire, Canadian.

Canada -- Politics and government -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Best laid plans [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] :

2 videodiscs (270 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the book by Terry Fallis.

Contains all 6 episodes from the Canadian TV miniseries originally broadcast on CBC in 2014.

Special features: From book to screen ; Great characters, great cast ; On location in Ottawa.

Includes an optional English described video track for people with visual disabilities.

Closed-captioned.

Disc 1. Here's the deal ; Running to lose ; Raise a little hell ; You had an option, Sir -- Disc 2. Going brogue ; Just watch me ; special features.

A PDM Entertainment production, in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; written by Susan Coyne and Jason Sherman ; directed by Peter Moss and Jim Allodi ; music composer, Trevor Yuile.

Jonas Chernick, Kenneth Welsh, Jodi Balfour, Sarah Allen, Raoul Bhaneja and Mark McKinney featuring Jordan Johnson-Hinds, Varun Saranga, Eric Peterson, Ron Lea, Peter Kelleghan, Leah Pinsent and Sonja Smits.

"Based on author Terry Fallis’ award-winning novel of the same name and 2011 Canada Reads winner, THE BEST LAID PLANS, is a humorous and satirical journey into the world of national politics and the people who do the backroom maneuvering in Canadian government. Parliament is a secret and esoteric world with its own culture, customs and language. THE BEST LAID PLANS is a rollicking journey into this cosseted world. Our guide through the story is the idealistic Daniel Addison (played by Jonas Chernick), head speech writer for the Leader of the Opposition. When Daniel catches his girlfriend and her boss in flagrante delicto he decides to flee political life and return to academe as assistant professor of English at the University of Ottawa. But it turns out that a life in politics is a bit like life in the mob – you just don’t walk away. For Daniel, the cost of exit is that he must find a candidate in a small riding 50 kilometers away and manage the campaign in the quickly approaching election. The catch: the riding in question has voted solidly for the Governing Party in every single election since Confederation and the incumbent is Eric Cameron, the extremely popular finance minister whose approval rating in the last election was over 90%"--Container.

Television comedies.

Political television programs.

Satirical television programs.

Television mini-series.

Television programs. -- Canada.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Films for people with visual disabilities.

Described video.

Fallis, Terry. Best laid plans.

Chernick, Jonas, 1973-

Welsh, Kenneth.

Bhaneja, Raoul.

McKinney, Mark, 1959-

Smits, Sonja, 1958-

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