Formed in high school, the members of the band The New Normals graduate and head to Toronto, where they live together, play gigs, and pursue different jobs to support themselves. One interesting job was for a sex phone line, voice-acting like someone having phone sex. They make it big enough to have a 30 U. S. cities added to their Canadian tour, just as the band blows up, caused by a pregnancy and a transgender, pansexual love triangle.
Set at the turn of the century, the film is a tribute to the Canadian indie bands of that era, as their music forms most of the soundtrack. The New Normals also play "their own music", specifically written for them. The film is vaguely chaptered, with song titles or events being the chapter titles.
I was at the Canadian premiere, with producer, director, cast and crew present. The director (of a younger generation), gave tribute to their music supervisor for assistance in getting the music, giving the cast a playlist of 90s music to listen to (to set the mood), and to get the composer on board. The cast lived together for some weeks before shooting began, to get the "living together" vibe. The cast were also given a video camera to record themselves, and some of that footage made it into the film.
This is an interesting film, which will have special appeal to fans of indie bands, or indie music of that era.
