Sweet Substitute

This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

From arthouse to Canuxploitation, Canadian International Pictures (CIP) is devoted to resurrecting vital, distinctive, and overlooked triumphs of Canadian cinema. This label is focused on the countrys original cinematic boom years spanning the 60s, 70s, and 80s occasionally venturing past that period (and the countrys borders) to highlight the films of Canadas most inspired actors and filmmakers.Vinegar Syndromes sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing CIP’s brand new line of home video releases!

Larry Kent was very important to me. Those earlyfilms were so ahead of their time. Atom Egoyan

Busy navigating his final year of high school, brainy aspiring teacher Tom (Waiting for Carolines Robert Howay) is determined to land an elusive scholarship, but his hard work is constantly interrupted by his real obsession: pursuing the opposite sex. Before long, he develops a romance with former classmate Elaine (The Boy Who Could Flys Angela Gann), who persistently declines his sexual advances. This inspires Tom to consider other options, including his good-natured study buddy Kathy (Carol Pastinsky). But when they take their friendship to the next level, shocking complications threaten to derail Toms future, inspiring his friends to take drastic action.

In the wake of The Bitter Ash and the censorship battles it inspired, director Larry Kent returned with this more playful but no less provocative sophomore effort. An intoxicating blend of carefree sex comedy and unsparing coming-of-age drama, Sweet Substitute plays like a hedonistic reimagining of the same years Nobody Waved Good-bye aimed at the exploitation film market. A surprise success in the U.S. (under the title Caressed), it set the stage for Kents next leap forward with When Tomorrow Dies, the third and final entry in his celebrated Vancouver Trilogy.

directed by: Larry Kent
starring: Robert Howay, Angela Gann, Carol Pastinsky, Lanny Beckman, Robert Silverman
1964 / 86 min / 1.37:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

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