Trailer Park Boys: The Movie


Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, also known as Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty and simply Trailer Park Boys, is a 2006 Canadian crime dark comedy film based on the television series Trailer Park Boys. The film follows characters Ricky, Julian and Bubbles creating a plan for The Big Dirty, one last crime that will enable them to retire from their criminal lives. The film, like the series, was directed and produced by Mike Clattenburg, with Ivan Reitman as an executive producer. It was released in Canada on October 6, 2006, and a limited release in the United States began on January 25, 2008. It has developed into a cult film since then.

Plot

Julian plans to steal money from an automated teller machine. He gets his two best friends, Ricky and Bubbles to help him succeed in the operation and get rich. However, the plan does not go accordingly and they are chased by the police. Bubbles runs off and is spared by the cops while Ricky and Julian are arrested and get sent to jail for an 18-month term.
Donny,, the jail instructor, kicks Ricky and Julian out of jail 26 days early in order to prevent Ricky from playing goalie for a rival team, giving Donny and his team a chance to win an upcoming jail street hockey tournament. Ricky and Julian are picked up by Bubbles and Ricky's father, Ray and brought back to Sunnyvale Trailer Park, only to be greeted by the trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey and his shirtless, cheeseburger-loving assistant, Randy.
Ricky decides to get back with his girlfriend Lucy and become a better father to his daughter, Trinity. However, Ricky learns from Lucy's friend Sarah that Lucy has a new job at a strip club and she also got new breast implants and her boss, Sonny is a dangerous man. After leaving the strip club, the boys decide to do "The Big Dirty", a crime that will allow them to retire from their criminal lives.
Julian and his new girlfriend, Wanda, go to the movies on their first date. While waiting in the snack line, Julian sees a money machine filled with change and believes he has found the "Big Dirty" and informs Ricky and Bubbles of the plan.
Ricky returns to the strip club and discovers that Lucy and Sonny have had sex twenty-eight times, enraging Ricky and forcing him to leave. As a party at J-Roc 's trailer ensues back at the park, Ricky listens to April Wine as Lucy arrives and says that it was a lie and she only had sex with Sonny five or six times. Ricky proposes to Lucy at J-Roc's party and she says yes, she then proceeds to get drunk and flash the entire crowd at the party.
Lahey, in the area to post a condemned notice, destroys Bubbles' shed and lies to trailer park owner Barb Lahey that Ricky, Julian and Bubbles' lot fees are three months unpaid and after police intervene in a scuffle they accept they must vacate in thirty days. To keep themselves in Sunnyvale, the boys decide to do the Big Dirty at the movie theatre, but things go wrong when Julian's cohorts Cory and Trevor pull the fire alarm. Rick and Julian succeed in escaping, and take the money from the machine accomplishing their mission.
At Ricky and Lucy's wedding, Sonny confronts them both with a handgun and shoots at Ricky's car causing the money to fall out through the bullet holes in the trunk. Police Officers George Green and Ted Johnston arrest Sonny and Wanda and leave, but Lahey sees the money falling out of the car and tries to chase the boys to capture them. Lahey and Randy flip their car and the cops crash into Ricky's car, causing the money to fly out.
In court Ricky demands Lahey should use a breathalyzer to see if Lahey is drunk or not and prove his testimony worthless. Lahey is revealed to be drunk and the boys are proclaimed innocent by the judge. The prosecutor also remarks that since there is no evidence of the money having been taken illegally, he grants that the money will be returned to the boys. A victorious Ricky tells off Lahey but this causes the prosecutor to threaten to put Ricky in jail for a week for his foul behaviour. Ricky then asks Lucy and Trinity if they mind that he returns to jail for a short time, which they approve, leading Rick to tell off the entire court and he is arrested and sentenced to one week in jail, allowing him to play in the hockey tournament along with Cory and Trevor. The team succeeds in winning and beating Donny's team, and Cory and Trevor become the :wikt:toast of the town|toast of the prison after "pantsing" Donny in front of everyone, embarrassing him and gaining them popularity among the other prisoners.

Cast

ActorRole
Robb WellsRicky
John Paul TremblayJulian
Mike SmithBubbles
John DunsworthJim Lahey
Patrick RoachRandy
Jonathan TorrensJ-Roc
Cory BowlesCory
Michael JacksonTrevor
Lucy DeCoutereLucy
Sarah E. DunsworthSarah
Barrie DunnRay
Lydia Lawson-BairdTrinity
Nichole HiltzWanda
Gerry DeeDonny
Hugh DillonSonny
Alex LifesonCop #1
Gord DownieCop #2
Scotty MarsBouncer
Eugene ClarkCadillac

Reception

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie has received mixed to positive reviews. The movie holds a 55% rating, based on 22 critics' reviews, on Rotten Tomatoes.

Box office

Trailer Park Boys was the highest-grossing movie in Canada for its first weekend in release October 7–8, 2006. The movie grossed an estimated $1.3 million at the box office in its opening weekend becoming the 11th top-grossing film in North America for that weekend. It had a per-screen average of $6,632 over the three-day weekend, and played on over 200 screens. As of November 19, 2006, the film had grossed $3.87 million.

Awards and recognition

The movie was nominated in three categories for the 27th Genie Awards in 2007:
  1. "Big Dirty Drums"
  2. "I Fought the Law" covered by The Big Dirty Band
  3. "38 Years Old" by The Tragically Hip
  4. "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush
  5. "Scared" by The Tragically Hip
  6. "Trailer Park Life" by J-Roc
  7. "Credulence"
  8. "Sweet Leaf" covered by Alexisonfire
  9. "All Touch" by Rough Trade
  10. "Shithawks"
  11. "I'm on Fire for You Baby" covered by April Wine
  12. "Bobcaygeon" by The Tragically Hip
  13. "Orca" by Wintersleep
  14. "Swamp Water" by Swollen Members
  15. "Ricky's Day in Court"
  16. "Liquor & Whores" by Bubbles & The Shit Rockers
  17. "Heavy Metal Love" by Helix

    DVD release

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie is available in Canada on DVD. It was released on February 20, 2007.

Sequels

On August 27, 2008, it was announced by Alliance Films that there was a second TPB movie being filmed. The movie, titled "Countdown To Liquor Day", is a continuation of the final TPB special, "Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys". The film was released in theaters on September 25, 2009. The third and final film in the franchise "Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize it!" was released on April 18, 2014.