Doppelgänger Paul

Doppelgänger Paul, or A Film About How Much I Hate Myself is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Dylan Akio Smith and Kris Elgstrand and released in 2011.[1]

Doppelgänger Paul
Film poster
Directed byDylan Akio Smith
Kris Elgstrand
Produced byKatherine Hazen
Oliver Linsley
Written byKris Elgstrand
StarringBrad Dryborough
Tygh Runyan
CinematographyCraig Trudeau
Edited byAlex Leigh Barker
Aram Coen
Production
company
Doghouse Films
The Whatever Institute
Release date
  • September 12, 2011 (2011-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film stars Tygh Runyan as Karl, a lonely man who decides following a near-death experience that Paul (Brad Dryborough) is his doppelgänger, even though the two men look nothing alike. Although Paul agrees to edit Karl's unpublished manuscript A Book About How Much I Hate Myself, their burgeoning friendship is tested when he edits it in ways that Karl takes as an insult to his creativity; however, they must reunite to undertake a road trip to Portland, Oregon when the book is unexpectedly and inexplicably published several months later by a different pair of dissimilar doppelgängers whom neither man can recall having met.[2]

The film's cast also includes Arabella Bushnell, Ben Cotton and Bronwen Smith.

The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] before going into commercial release in 2012.[4]

References
  1. Norman Wilner, "Doppelganger Paul". Now, February 23, 2012.
  2. Robert Bell, "Doppelgänger Paul: Kris Elgstrand & Dylan Akio Smith". Exclaim!, February 23, 2012.
  3. Liam Lacey, "Doppelganger Paul: A clever film that can strain one's patience". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 2011.
  4. Peter Howell, "Bromance hits road, goes off rails". Toronto Star, February 24, 2012.


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