Review of Poor Boy's Game

There's a 90 per cent chance that a movie filmed in Canada will pretend that it is taking place in the U.S., as a crass attempt to garner more box office or rental bucks. If there are black people in the film, the odds of this sort of cultural counterfeiting goes up to 95 per cent. Therefore, I gave POOR BOYS GAME a rating bonus point for honesty, as it was set where (except for the Hamilton, ON, Canada sound stage scenes) it was actually filmed. Its portrayal of poor white racist Canadians, racial brawls, and chip-on-the-shoulder minorities was very convincing, and the DVD "bonus" musical video "Africville" (performed by Black Union) about the 121-year-old Campbell Road\Seaview black section of Halifax, including the United Baptist Church, which was bull-dozed by Canadian rough riders in the middle of the night in 1969 is a rap lament which ranks up there with anything by Woody Guthrie or Joan Baez as far as protest songs go.