The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (1986)

Directors

Andy Jones, Mike Jones

Cast

Andy Jones, Brian Downey, Cathy Jones, Greg Malone, Mary Walsh, Robert Joy

The story

Andy Jones stars as Faustus Bidgood, a clerk in the Newfoundland provincial department of education who harbours secret dreams of becoming president of Newfoundland and leading the province to secede from Canada. The film contains several levels of what might be termed competing "realities", oscillating between visions of mundane office work and sequences in which Bidgood accidentally leads a revolution, and containing a film within a film that narrates Faustus' real life and imaginary rise to power. In the film within a film, we learn that Faustus' paternal grandfather has predicted that a great man will lead the people of Newfoundland…

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