
Returning to her hometown of Vancouver on the news that her Caucasian father is on his deathbed, Rebecca learns from him before he dies that her aboriginal mother, Rita, did not abandon them twenty-five years ago because Rita did not love Rebecca as he had always told her, but rather he forced Rita to leave. As such, Rebecca goes on a search for Rita through Vancouver's notorious downtown eastside, where over the years many aboriginal women, marginalized in society, have been... (Full plot summary below)
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Returning to her hometown of Vancouver on the news that her Caucasian father is on his deathbed, Rebecca learns from him before he dies that her aboriginal mother, Rita, did not abandon them twenty-five years ago because Rita did not love Rebecca as he had always told her, but rather he forced Rita to leave. As such, Rebecca goes on a search for Rita through Vancouver's notorious downtown eastside, where over the years many aboriginal women, marginalized in society, have been found dead, most under the mysterious but suspicious circumstance of being alone in their single room occupancy (SRO) hotel with excessively high blood alcohol levels. Many of these women were officially classified as missing before their dead bodies discovered. Although she comes across a few leads, Rebecca believes the strongest lead in finding her mother is through a man named Norman, who claims to have seen the woman in the photograph, who he refers to as Shadie, sometime recently. Rebecca will learn how much Norman truly knows about her mother, as well as about the dead and missing women.
Leave your thoughts about Unnatural & Accidental.
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunYou can see the good intentions, but this is a problematic film, with the usual low-budget drawbacks plus horrifying assault scenes. |
| Globe and MailJason AndersonUnnatural & Accidental becomes so chaotic and grotesque, it fails to elicit much sympathy for the people it purports to memorialize. |
| User ReviewPrivate Utotally filmed in Vancouver and Coquitlam - about the downtown Eastside - Two stories running together: a combination of First Nation's women's spirituality blended with a racist white man's serial killings |
| User ReviewLauren MThe truth is often stranger than fiction. A startling piece of work. This is one of the best DTES films to date. |
| User Reviewgirlonwhyte nan excellent movie, grassroots and underground...it's pretty twisted but carries that canadian film curse of too good for it's own good |
| User ReviewSabrina Ainteresting story, but no ups & downs, thus boring after a while |
| User ReviewKaren FIt's hard to make anything but a real downer when your subject is the unnoticed murder of nearly a dozen derelict women during the 1990s. However, the film isn't so much adapted from a play as pulled from the stage (The playwright was heavily involved in the picture) and the premise of Rebecca being guided by the spirits of the murder victims works better on stage than it does here. It's a story with visceral power, but it's lost in part through the too-faithful adaptation and the fact that the male lead doesn't want to be there. |
| User ReviewSunshine sIt was a pleasant surprise to see that the director also produced and photographed this film. The photography was very good. Unfortunately, lots of other stuff sucked. |
| User ReviewLee MUnnatural & Accidental becomes so chaotic and grotesque, it fails to elicit much sympathy for the people it purports to memorialize. |