![]() Would just "play hockey and smoke dope" instead of lifting weights andÄrinking vodka, he'd be happy too. When Ricky's in prison, he has a good time. There's also a certain slacker mentality that permeates the film. So everyone apologizes and makes up with each other. But even this drastic decree is recinded when Julian and Bubbles point out that Ricky is being too mean to the boys. Ricky gets pissed that Cory and Trevor have just screwed up, but the worst punishment Ricky can come up with is that he won't hang out with them any more. That attitude also comes through in the characters themselves. Rounding out the gang, are Bubbles (Mike Smith), the cat-loving heart and soul of the Sunnyvale trailer park, and the inseparable and inept team of Cory and Trevor (Cory Bowles and Michael Jackson - no not THAT Michael Jackson). Both he and Julian have been in and out of prison since they were kids. But he loves Lucy and his illegitimate daughter Trinity, and will do anything to keep them all together. Ricky used to have a good thing going growing and selling pot, but he's sort of slacked off on that career. Ricky (Robb Wells) is Julian's best friend, and he lives in his car at the trailer park because his girlfriend Lucy (Lucy Decoutere) has kicked him out of the trailer. ![]() Julian is never seen without a rum and coke firmly in hand. He's a career criminal but only in the sense that he keeps coming up with illegal schemes not because he actually has made a successful career out of crime. Julian (John Paul Tremblay), is the leader (a dubious distinction) of a group of trailer park friends. For those, like myself, who might be unfamiliar with the characters, let me introduce you to the main players. The new movie has less of a mockumentary feel, although occasional interviews with the characters are inserted. More residents of Sunnyvale Trailer Park (Screen Media) Movie was actually made in 2006 and was a top grosser in Canada, but I guess it took two years for a distributor to decide to release it here in the U.S. Now in its seventh season, the show has a strong following in Canada and a cult following here in the U.S. Clattenburg was then approached to create a series out of that film and so Then came a no-budget 1999 mockumentary that chronicled the lives of these likable losers who always had some big scheme to make money. Trailer Park Boys grow out of a short film made by Mike Clattenburg that featured the characters of Julian and Ricky.
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