Going to Kansas City

1998 Canadian film
  • February 1998 (1998-02) (Los Angeles Filmmarket[1])
  • July 31, 1998 (1998-07-31) (Finland)
Running time
98 minutes[1]CountriesCanada
FinlandLanguageEnglishBudget17 million mk[2]

Going to Kansas City is a 1998 Canadian-Finnish drama film directed by Pekka Mandart. The film is about a male exchange student from Finland, who falls in love with an American girl, whose father does not accept the relationship. Shot in Canada,[2] the film is set in the rural town of Canaan that is located 120 miles west of Kansas City.[1]

Cast

  • Mikko Nousiainen as Mikko Vihavainen
  • Melissa Galianos as Carly Malone
  • Michael Ironside as Deputy Sheriff Mike Malone
  • Susan Almgren as Bonnie Bruckner
  • Daniel Pilon as Jack Bruckner
  • Kris Holden-Ried as Charlie Bruckner
  • Mark Camacho as Billy Ossining
  • Karine Dion as Karen Olson
  • Shawn Potter as Tink Kolchek
  • Adam MacDonald as Floyd Weaver

Source:[1]

Production

The director Pekka Mandart adapted the idea of the story from a magazine article about a love story between a Finnish exchange student and an American girl.[3]

Out of a total budget of 17 million Finnish markka (mk), 11 million mk came from the Canadian production company Telescene.[2] The Finnish Film Foundation granted a three-million mk production support for Going to Kansas City. The total amount of production costs were 14,278,968 mk.[1]

Reception

Going to Kansas City had a total of 42,524 admissions in Finnish theatres.[1]

The film was a nominee for the Best Music at the 1999 Jussi Awards[4] and the National Council for Cinema of Finland awarded it a 100,000 mk Quality support for film productions.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Going to Kansas City (1998)". Elonet. National Audiovisual Archive / Finnish Board of Film Classification. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c Björkbacka, Hannu (August 26, 1998). "Going to Kansas City tuli Kokkolaan" [Going to Kansas City came to Kokkola]. Keskipohjanmaa (in Finnish). Keski-Pohjanmaan Kirjapaino Oyj. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  3. ^ Ahonen, Kimmo (July 30, 1998). "Pekka Mandart ja Going to Kansas City". Film-O-Holic.com (in Finnish). Filmiverkko ry. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  4. ^ "Going to Kansas City (1998) - Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
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