..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

Edison

Directed by David J. Burke
Nu Image/Millennium Films

Closing nights are harder to recall but last year it was Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood and I also recall Seven Years in Tibit among past finales. This year's offering is Edison, a yarn about bad cops and a young crusader journalist that brings them down. The cast includes Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Justin Timberlake and LL Cool J and the only reasonable explanation for its presence as Toronto's 2005 swan song would seem to me selection by lotto. It's an unremittingly hackneyed effort with the sort of serious bent that elicits unintentional laughter. Ninety minutes of black leader fares better by comparison and one has to wonder whether a monumental lapse in judgment or a big pay off contributed to its high profile inclusion.

- Leonard Klady