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Bernard White, left, and Saamer Usmani, right, in a scene from Shook. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

Shook

Directed by Amar Wala

Written by Amar Wala and Adnan Khan

Starring Saamer Usmani, Bernard White and Shomari Downer

Classification 14A; 113 minutes

Opens in theatres Aug. 8

Critic’s Pick

Maybe you noticed the Scarborough renaissance over the past few years. I’m referring to the wave of Canadian films centring on Toronto’s east-end suburb that for too long has been ignored on our screens. Scarborough is the immigrant hub where all the diversity the city – and the country – tends to boast about actually lives, represented recently in films like Wexford Plaza , Scarborough , Bro

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