A brand new movie by Toronto actor and director Tony Marra and Trovare Movies could have runners in all places grinning in recognition.

The title character in Billy Runs Boston? is Billy Russo–a middle-aged man (performed by Marra) who works a menial job whereas caring for his practically non-verbal brother and residing below the thumb of their embittered sister. He is a straightforward soul who runs, like many people, primarily to flee (nonetheless briefly) his private circumstances. 

In the future, a fellow runner in Billy’s loosely-constituted operating membership means that he ought to attempt to qualify for Boston, and this provides Billy a brand new sense of goal. His well-meaning buddies assist him out with reward playing cards and hand-me-downs, and Billy turns into obsessed along with his quest. However there are penalties: he begins neglecting his brother’s care, and, as so typically occurs in actual life, harm strikes. What occurs subsequent is stored hidden from viewers till the tip, when the explanation for the query mark within the title can also be revealed.

Billy Runs Boston has the entire acquainted operating tropes: the lengths individuals will go to qualify for Boston. The fartleks, hill repeats, tempo runs and intervals. The chafing. The connection between operating and social media. The spectacular collections of Nineteen Eighties race T-shirts. The outrageous costs for carbon-plated trainers. The recommendation to RICE a harm (relaxation, ice, compression, elevation). And, in fact, the Holy Grail of marathoners–i.e., qualifying for Boston, and the lengths some individuals will go to to attain it. It pokes mild enjoyable at how ridiculous runners will be, whereas highlighting operating’s true backside line: most of us, like Billy, run as a result of it makes us really feel good. 

The movie is stuffed with recognizable Toronto operating places–and even an actual operating store. 

Toronto runners can benefit from the movie at a screening on Nov. 11 at 3 p.m.on the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles Ave. (click on right here to purchase tickets). There are additionally screenings scheduled in London, UK on Nov. 4 and at Ottawa’s Bytown Theatre on Nov. 23.