| Whole New Thing | |
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| Directed by | Amnon Buchbinder |
| Written by | Daniel MacIvor Amnon Buchbinder |
| Produced by | Camelia Frieberg |
| Starring | Aaron Webber Daniel MacIvor Robert Joy Rebecca Jenkins Callum Keith Rennie Kathryn MacLellan |
| Cinematography | Christopher Ball |
| Edited by | Angela Baker |
| Music by | David Buchbinder |
Production companies | Acuity Pictures Production Palpable Productions |
| Distributed by | THINKfilm |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Whole New Thing is a 2005 Canadian drama film directed by Amnon Buchbinder.[1] The film is a coming-of-age narrative about a 13-year-old boy, Emerson Thorsen (played by Aaron Webber) who lives in an isolated straw-bale house with his counter-cultural parents, Rog (Robert Joy) and Kaya (Rebecca Jenkins). However, when Kaya decides that homeschooling provides too little structure for Emerson, she enrolls him at the local middle-school under the tuition of 43-year-old Don Grant (Daniel MacIvor). Emerson, despite displaying a developed intellectual approach to sexuality, discovers the problems that come with developing a crush, and the taboo of this crush being his male teacher.[2]
